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The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / by Sherman Alexie ; art by Ellen Forney.
Authors:
Alexie, Sherman, 1966-
Forney, Ellen.
Material type:
Book
Subject:
Spokane Indians -- Juvenile fiction.
Indians of North America -- Washington (State) -- Juvenile fiction.
Indian reservations -- Juvenile fiction.
Race relations -- Juvenile fiction.
Diaries -- Juvenile fiction.
Spokane Indians -- Fiction.
Indians of North America -- Washington (State) -- Fiction.
Indian reservations -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Abraham Lincoln Award nominee book, 2011.
Diary fiction.
Language:
English
Publisher:
New York : Little, Brown, c2007.
Description:
229 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:
9780316013680
0316013684
Rating:
5 out of 5: They loved it
Community reviews
Heartbreaking and funny
by
wheref
I laughed, I cried, then I laughed some more! Check out my full review at: http://bookfaredelights.blogspot.com/2010/09/review-absolutely-true-diary-of-part.html
Reviewed Nov. 11, 2007
by
fblair
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/books/review/Barcott3-t.html
Summary:
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
Place Hold
Library
Call #
Copies
Material
Location
St. Charles
YA FIC ALEXIE
YAFICTION
Checked Out - Due: 5/22/2013
Batavia
YA FIC ALEXIE, SHERMAN
YAFICTION
Checked Out - Due: 5/9/2013
Bloomingdale
YA F ALE
BOOK
Young Adult Fiction
Franklin Park
YA ALEXIE
FICTION
Young Adult Collection
Geneva
YA ALEXIE
BOOK
Checked Out - Due: 6/10/2013
Glen Ellyn
YA FIC ALEXIE, SHERMAN
YAFICTION
Young Adult Collection
Glen Ellyn
YA FIC ALEXIE, SHERMAN
YAFICTION
Being transferred between libraries
Glen Ellyn
YA FIC ALEXIE, SHERMAN
YAFICTION
Young Adult Collection
Itasca
Y ALE
FICTION
Checked Out - Due: 6/7/2013
Villa Park
HS ALEXIE, S.
FICTION
Adult Fiction
Villa Park
HS ALEXIE, S.
FICTION
Adult Fiction
West Chicago
YA ALE
YAFICTION
Checked Out - Due: 5/30/2013
Fiction & Biography
Other Covers
Fiction & Biography
Topics:
Native Americans
Spokane Indians
Cultural identity
Cultural assimilation
Cultural differences
Cultural conflict
Reservation life
School
Teachers
Students
Alcoholism
Alienation
Locations:
Washington (State)
West (U.S.)
Pacific Northwest (U.S.)
United States
Genres:
Young adult fiction
Coming of age
Black humor
Character Traits:
Hydrocephalic
wants desperately to escape the reservation
transfers to a public school 22 miles from home in a rich town
everyone on the rez see him as a traitor
at school most teachers and students project sterotypes onto him
alcoholism and self-destructuve behaviors lead to the deaths of close relatives
Junior must separate from his tribe to preserve his identity
Characters:
Spirit, Arnold Jr.
Professions:
Student
Cartoonist