Annotation:
Junior leaves the reservation to attend the all-white high school 20 miles down the road. Will he survive tragedy and illness to get the girl and graduate?
Book Talk:
Junior is a nerdy, sickly, reading and drawing obsessed Spokane Native who leaves his friends and family behind on the reservation to attend a racist all-white high school in the next town. Despite meeting the girl of his dreams, Penelope, and making new friends, like Gordy, tragedy strikes and one horrible thing after another happens, until Junior isn't sure if he can go on. Does being Native destine him to a life of drunken poverty, unhappiness and early death? He says,
"I used to think the world was broken down by tribes...By black and white. By Indian and white. But I know that isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: The people who are assholes and the people who are not."
Read The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian to discover if Junior is willing to change everything in order to change his life. When given the choice, which tribe will he choose?
Available in paperback, hardcover, eBook and audio CD.
Awards:
2007 National Book Award for Young People's Literature
2008 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Fiction and Poetry
2009 Odyssey Award as the year's "best audiobook for children or young adults"
2010 California Young Reader Medal, Young Adult Book
No comments:
Post a Comment