The Absolutely True Diary of a PartTime Indian
by Sherman Alexie
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appears in Native American, Young Adult, and Fiction.
Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, 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 allwhite farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.Heartbreaking, funny, and beautif...
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appears in Native American, Young Adult, and Fiction.
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