Hello!
A new day calls for a new book
right? Looking for a local author suggestion? Sherman Alexie is a fantastic
local author. His young adult book is The
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and is inspired by his own
experiences growing up. He chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one
unlucky boy trying to rise above the life everyone expects him to live.
Junior is a budding cartoonist
growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Born with a variety of medical
problems, he is picked on everyone but his best friend. Determined to receive a
good education, Junior leaves the rez to attend an all-white school in the
neighboring farm town where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Despite
being condemned as a traitor to his people and enduring great tragedies, Junior
attacks life with wit and humor and discovers a strength inside of himself that
he never knew existed.
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