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Title:
The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian
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.
Audience:
600L Lexile.
Edition:
1st ed.
Contents:
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.
Physical Description:
230 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader Grades 9-12 4 6 Quiz 117771 English fiction.
Author(s):
Publisher:
Little, Brown,
Publication Date:
2007
ISBN:
9780316013680

9781428764507

9780316013697

9780316068208
Publication Information:
New York : Little, Brown, ©2007.
Award Note:
Boston-Globe-Horn Book Award, 2008

A Junior Library Guild selection.

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
Call Number:
YA ALEXIE
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