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Book Summaries

This blog contains some of my YA novel summaries.  Hopefully, this blog will be a reliable source for high school students who wish to find ideas for great reading.

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

11/10/2014

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Alexie, S. (2007).  The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. New York: NY:  Little, Brown, & Co. 229p.  ISBN: 978-0-316-01368-0.

Summary:  Junior is a 14-year-old budding cartoonist living on the Spokane Indian reservation who has decided he wants to go to the neighboring white school so he might receive a good education.  When he does this, he struggles as he is rejected by his white classmates.  Even worse, the entire Indian community turns on him for deserting his culture, including his best friend.  Told in first person and through cartoons, this painfully humorous book reveals much about the Indian culture on the rez as well as the raw                           thoughts and emotions as Junior experiences them.

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    I am the librarian at Merkel High School.  I have been in education since 1991. I am married with two children.  In my spare time I enjoy scrap booking and spending time with family.

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