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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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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