a middle grade series

She is the author of several books

painfully moving fiction

this book holds in its heart the limitless expanse of love and tenderness

who gained notoriety as an artist through his emotionally revealing portraits of his wife—work that is adoring

Navajo Code Talkers: America's Secret Weapon in World War II creation stories a middle grade seriesOn the Pacific front during World War II, strange messages were picked up by American and Japanese forces on land and at sea. The messages were totally unintelligible to everyone except a small select group within the Marine Corps: the Navajo code talkers a group of Navajos communicating in a code based on the Navajo language. This code, the first unbreakable one in U. S. history, was a key reason that the Allies were able to win in the Pacific.