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The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian

2007

Title:	The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / by Sherman Alexie ; art by Ellen Forney.
Author:	Alexie, Sherman, 1966-
Format:	Book
Publisher, Date:	New York : Little, Brown, 2007.
Description:	229 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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.
Target Audience Note:	600 Lexile.
Subjects:	Spokane Indians -- Fiction. Indians of North America -- Washington (State) -- Fiction. Indian reservations -- Fiction. Race relations -- Fiction. Cartooning -- Fiction. Poor families -- Fiction. Teenage boys -- Fiction. High schools -- Fiction. Children of alcoholics -- Fiction. Loss (Psychology) -- Fiction. Friendship -- Fiction. Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity -- Fiction. Brain-damaged children -- Fiction. Washington (State) -- Fiction.
Genre:	Diary fiction. Basketball stories. Bildungsromans. Humorous fiction. Young adult fiction. Sports fiction.
Other Author:	Forney, Ellen, illustrator.
Notes:	Some copies may include discussion guide and interview with the artist. Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.0 6.0 117771. Reading Counts RC High School 3.4 13 Quiz: 41873 Guided reading level: Z+. Junior Library Guild selection.
ISBN:	0316013684 9780316013680 9780316013697 (paperback) 9780545274531 (paperback)
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A National Book Award-winning author, poet, and filmmaker, Sherman Alexie is one of the most well-known and beloved literary writers of his generation. His works of fiction, including The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Reservation Blues, and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, have received numerous awards and citations. He lives in Seattle. Like Thunder Boy Jr., Sherman was named for his father. - (Grand Central Pub)

An award-winning author, poet, and filmmaker, Sherman Alexie was named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists and has been lauded by The Boston Globe as "an important voice in American literature." Sherman Alexie is one of the most well known and beloved literary writers of his generation. His five works of fiction have received numerous awards and citations, including the PEN/Malamud Award for Fiction and the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, and have been translated into eleven languages. - (Hachette Book Group)

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