Across
- 2. a small buckskin bag some navajo people use to carry corn pollen and small tokens
- 4. another main character who is a Navajo code talker marine in the book
- 6. a deep, narrow gorge with steep sides
- 9. Dworks in the field of astronomy, person who studies the stars
- 10. radiomen who used codes some in the Navajo language during WW2 so they couldn't be decoded and translated easily
- 12. a round, wide, open container
- 14. a group of stars in a recognizable pattern
- 15. one of billies best friends who she must eventually save
- 17. technology used to communicate or signal something using radio waves
- 18. an indigenous group in the US who used their native language as codes to fight in WW2
- 20. front where some of the fighting was done during WW2
- 22. a large farm
- 23. a blue to green opaque mineral that denny gives billie
- 26. maritime land force service branch of the US
Down
- 1. a group of trees that grow in the southwest us and Mexico with nuts that natives eat
- 3. an awkward and ill-mannered person
- 5. a star that sits almost over the north pole
- 7. stamps that could be collected and exchanged for a war bond during WW2
- 8. Biggest war fought between the allies and the axis power
- 11. the ranch where the main character lives
- 13. is one of the main characters in the story who faces challenges and bullying throughout the story
- 16. Billie and Leo's great aunt who takes care of them after their father leaves them with her
- 19. a term Navajo people use for themselves means "the people"
- 21. the choice and willingness to confront agony, pain, emotions, or others
- 24. a Japanese island where a very famous battle was fought during WW2
- 25. a stray dog Denny finds that helps Billie throughout the story