5.5"x8.25" 229 pages + discussion guide + Interview with artist Ellen Forney. 26th printing w/number line. Author photo by Rob Casey. Cover design by Kirk Benshoff. Unblemished, GIFT QUALITY. AR Quiz No. 117771 EN Fiction Accelerated Reader Quiz Information IL: UG - BL: 4.0 - AR Pts: 6.0 Accelerated Reader Quiz Type Information AR Quiz Types: RP, LS, VP Book Rating Rating: 3.5 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. The plot contains profanity and mature.

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Title

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian

Publisher

Little, Brown & Co, NY

Publication Date

2009

Language

English

ISBN 10

0316013692

ISBN 13

9780316013697

Binding

Soft cover

Illustrator

Ellen Forney

Edition

1st Edition.

Condition

Near Fine

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A New York Times bestseller—over one million copies sold!
A National Book Award winner
A Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner

Bestselling and award winning author Sherman Alexie tells the hearbreaking yet funny story about a boy living on the Spokane Indian Reservation who wants to break free of the life he was destined to live.

Junior is a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, based on the author's own experiences and coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live.

About the Author

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.

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