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📖 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

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👤 Author
Sherman Alexie
📚 Genre
Fiction
🎯 Interest Level
UG
📊 ATOS Book Level
4.0
🔢 Quiz No.
117771
📝 Word Count
44,275
🔗 Series
🏷️ Topic
Award Winners-American Indian Youth Literature Award; Award Winners-YALSA Top Ten; Award Winners-Publishers Weekly Best Book; Award Winners-BCCB Blue Ribbon Book; Award Winners-Boston Globe/Horn Book Award/Honors; Award Winners-SLJ Best Book; Community Life-School; Diaries/Journals/Letters/Blogs-Diaries/Journals/Letters/Blogs (All); People-Indigenous Peoples (All); Recommended Reading-Junior Library Guild Selection; Recommended Reading-Wheatley Aligned Supplemental Texts; Recommended Reading-ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound; Recommended Reading-YALSA Popular Paperbacks; Recommended Reading-YALSA Best Books for YA; Social Issues-Prejudice & Discrimination;

🌟 Recommendation Details

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is about a Native American teenage boy named Junior who lives a difficult life on a Native American reservation due to medical conditions that he dealt with when he was younger. His family is broken and unsupportive and his peers are bullies, leaving him with little to nothing to cope. Junior faces bullying, violence, and humiliation as he tries to find where he belongs. I recommend this book because it showcases Native American culture that most people otherwise would not know about, and it also is written like a diary, like a retelling of Junior's life. The book is based on real events and has interesting art throughout the book of cartoons that the main character illustrated. I think the book is eye-opening and immersive to Junior's culture.

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