Code Talker

by Joseph Bruchac

A young adult non-fiction novel, I checked this title out because I was very interested in the important work they did with codes in WWII and especially liked it because it was a first-person account from the Navajo, Joseph Bruchac. He addresses us as “grandchildren” and gives insight into what life was like for the Navajos in general, which I found fascinating. As a boy of 14, his journey begins at school and two years later he was in the military. (A year too soon, actually.)

DOES WHAT YOU SAY AND DO MATTER?

Review of Wolf Hollow, by Lauren Wolk

I began reading this book one evening and finished it the very next day, so gripping was this story of an eleven year-old girl who discovers the problems that escalate with the telling of lies, or hiding the truth, even for a good reason.