Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian - 229Htrue
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This award-winning author, poet, and filmmaker, named Granta’s Best Young American Novelist has now written a new book especially for young people. Teenagers will see themselves in this story if they too are part-time Indians. Junior, a boy born with a variety of medical problems, is picked on by everyone but his best friend. Determined to receive a good education, he leaves the rez to attend an all-white school in a neighboring farm town where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Despite being condemned as a traitor to his people and enduring great tragedies, Junior attacks life with wit and humor and discovers a strength inside of himself that he never knew existed. Alexie’s first novel for young people, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one unlucky boy trying to rise above the life everyone expects him to live. by Sherman Alexie, illustrated by Ellen Forney - 230 pp., 6x8 1/2, ages 12+, cartoon illustrations, 2007 hardback.
- Author: Alexie, Sherman
- Reading Level: Junior-Senior High
- AR 4.0
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