SPEAK

Published by the Penguin Group

Penguin Group (USA) Inc.,

345 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A.

Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto,

Ontario, Canada M4P 2Y3 (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.)

Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England

Penguin Ireland, 25 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland

(a division of Penguin Books Ltd)

Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124,

Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty Ltd)

Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park,

New Delhi - 110 017, India

Penguin Group (NZ), Cnr Airborne and Rosedale Roads, Albany, Auckland 1310,

New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd)

Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue,

Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa

Registered Offices: Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England

First published in the United States of America by Dial Books,

a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2005

Published by Speak, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2006

Copyright © Joseph Bruchac, 2005

All rights reserved

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGED THE DIAL BOOKS EDITION AS FOLLOWS:

Bruchac, Joseph, date.

Code talker: a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two / Joseph Bruchac.

p.  cm.

Summary: After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language,

Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become code talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.

[ 1. Navajo language—Fiction. 2. Cryptography—Fiction. 3. Navajo Indians—Fiction. 4. Indians of North America—Southwest, New—Fiction. 5. United States. Marine Corps—Indian troops—Fiction. 6. World War, 1939–1945—Fiction.]

I. Title.  PZ7.B82816Co 2005  [Fic]—dc22 2003022792

ISBN: 978-1-101-66480-3

Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party Web sites or their content.