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Bruchac tells the lesser known story of the Navajo Code Talkers of World War Two. He tells it through the eyes of one Navajo boy who grew up being taught by white Americans that the Navajo language and culture is bad and that he needs to forget it completely to be successful in life. As the second World War waged on, the US Marines found that they needed the Navajo indians. They needed their language to use as code. They needed Navajo men who could speak fluently in English as well as Navajo; they needed a code that could not be cracked by the Japanese.

I first heard this story in third grade when my teacher read us the illustrated, children’s version of this book. I was really interested. It was something I had never heard about before that point. When I came across this book, I remembered vaguely the story of the Navajo Code Talkers, but I knew I wanted to know more. Rebecca McNutt states that“[Code Talker is]about a piece of history that I didn't even know anything about. She makes a good point that most people know hardly anything about that subject. She goes on to say �� WWII's major topics are usually Hitler and Pearl Harbour and such, which is an undoubtedly important thing, but this book brings up a topic from the war that isn't in most history textbooks.��

I found this book to be something the audience could connect to and sympathize for. Though, RavenclawReadingRoom thought otherwise; she said,”it's lacking in emotion when discussing the war.�� I completely disagreed with her. I found the story of the Navajo indians to very intriguing and inspiring. In the book Bruchac talks about the awful horrors that those veterans faced during that war. He described his childhood abuse of white Americans, the horrible situations of the citizens in Japan that they saw, the enemies that the saw killed, and their friends they saw killed; all of those things are tough and emotional topics and I thought the author did really good job of telling those stories.

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested. Carol says,�� This is really a sensitive, balanced, well researched account of the Navajos who developed a code which the Japanese were unable to crack.�� I think that she worded that perfectly. This book is perfect for all ages of readers; it is soft enough for an elementary student but developed enough for any mature reader. I loved this book and I hope that you can enjoy it as much as I did.