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3.8 AVERAGE
3.8 AVERAGE
emotional
informative
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
fast-paced
I read this book for school and it's interesting and learned a lot from it.
I am so glad that I stopped reading this one and switched to listening. It was so much better hearing the Navajo language than imagining it.
The entire story was amazing but what really struck me was the Author’s Note mentioning that since the Code Talkers we’re only declassified in 1969 there are are countless WWII histories that make no mention of the Navajo contribution to the war effort. Injustice upon injustice…
Grade 7 and up.
The entire story was amazing but what really struck me was the Author’s Note mentioning that since the Code Talkers we’re only declassified in 1969 there are are countless WWII histories that make no mention of the Navajo contribution to the war effort. Injustice upon injustice…
Grade 7 and up.
challenging
emotional
informative
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I can recognize that this is a decent book, while also stating that it’s not for me. If it were print, I would never have finished it, so thank goodness for audiobooks.
I picked this up because Joseph Bruchac is an important indigenous writer in the middle grade to YA market and I wanted to get a sense of what and how he writes for recommendation purposes. I can now safely say that I should not recommend it to people like me. Fortunately, there are a lot of people in this world who are not like me.
So good things: history! I learned so much about Navajo code talkers. I knew nothing about them before picking up this book. There’s also a good chunk of the book about residential schools, which has direct curriculum connections and which makes it a great book to promote around Orange Shirt Day.
The things that didn’t match my preference: the writing style was very factual and read very much like a memoir or a piece of non-fiction. Also... I’m just not really into war stories. War and all the details of battle? No thank you.
Some themes: war; friendship; contributions of the Navajo people during WW2; residential schools; native language;
I picked this up because Joseph Bruchac is an important indigenous writer in the middle grade to YA market and I wanted to get a sense of what and how he writes for recommendation purposes. I can now safely say that I should not recommend it to people like me. Fortunately, there are a lot of people in this world who are not like me.
So good things: history! I learned so much about Navajo code talkers. I knew nothing about them before picking up this book. There’s also a good chunk of the book about residential schools, which has direct curriculum connections and which makes it a great book to promote around Orange Shirt Day.
The things that didn’t match my preference: the writing style was very factual and read very much like a memoir or a piece of non-fiction. Also... I’m just not really into war stories. War and all the details of battle? No thank you.
Some themes: war; friendship; contributions of the Navajo people during WW2; residential schools; native language;
Really interesting just not my type of book. It was aimed more for younger audiences, which is why I think it would be a great gift for someone in elementary or middle school, but because of this it was also very accessible. Overall very interesting and important story.
I was more interested in the first half of the book. The second half got into war strategy, which just does not interest me. For some reason, I expected code talkers to be behind-the-scenes rather than in the line of fire. This is not the fault of the book, obviously. That’s historically what happened and many people would enjoy reading about it.
The tone of this book is boring but deliberate. It reads like an Elder telling a story. It might be better as an audiobook. I know from reading Rez Dogs that the author is capable of better syntax.
The tone of this book is boring but deliberate. It reads like an Elder telling a story. It might be better as an audiobook. I know from reading Rez Dogs that the author is capable of better syntax.
It was good, in terms of factual history, I guess. I don't really know a lot about the Pacific Theater, so I did learn something, at least.
I could have done without the "listen, grandchildren," stuff, though. It felt like a very stereotypical delivery.
I could have done without the "listen, grandchildren," stuff, though. It felt like a very stereotypical delivery.