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The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian  Cover Image Book Book

The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / by Sherman Alexie ; art by Ellen Forney.

Alexie, Sherman, 1966- (author). Forney, Ellen. (Added Author).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780316013680
  • ISBN: 0316013684
  • ISBN: 9780316013697
  • ISBN: 0316013692
  • Physical Description: 230 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Little, Brown, ©2007.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
The black eye of the month club -- Why chicken means so much to me -- Revenge is my middle name -- Because geometry is not a country somewhere near France -- Hope against hope -- Go means go -- Rowdy sings the blues -- How to fight monsters -- Grandmother gives me some advice -- Tears of a clown -- Halloween -- Slouching toward Thanksgiving -- My sister sends me an E-mail -- Thanksgiving -- Hunger pains -- Rowdy gives me advice about love -- Dance, dance, dance -- Don't trust your computer -- My sister sends me a letter -- Reindeer games -- And a partridge in a pear tree -- Red versus white -- Wake -- Valentine heart -- In like a lion -- Rowdy and I have a long and serious discussion about basketball -- Because Russian guys are not always geniuses -- My final freshman year report card -- Remembering -- Talking about turtles -- Discussion guide -- Interview with Ellen Forney.
Participant or Performer Note:
Ellen Forney.
Awards Note:
A Junior Library Guild selection.
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry, 2008
National Book Award, Young People's Literature, 2007.
Odyssey Award, 2009.
Notable Book for a Global Society award winner, 2008.
American Indian Youth Literature Award winner, 2008.
Subject: Spokane Indians > Juvenile fiction.
Indians of North America > Washington (State) > Juvenile fiction.
Indian reservations > Juvenile fiction.
Race relations > Juvenile fiction.
Diary Fiction.
Washington (State) > Race relations > Juvenile fiction.
Genre: Diary fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at scottsboropl.

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