The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Alexie, Sherman.  The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian.  New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2007.         

Audience:  Young teens (freshmen)

Genre: Coming of age

Topics of Focus: Love, Family, Ethnicity 

Red Flags:  Sexual Humor

There are only two types of people in this world; people who do like school and the people who see it as a living hell. This is the small story for a Native American boy named Arnold or nickname Junior. This book won the 2007 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. The book tells the tale of Junior a freshman in high school going through dances and trying to find love in a girl named Penelope. He struggles through pain of losing and gaining friends.  If you find yourself an outcast because of ethnicity, read this book.  This book explains the pains and joy of being a different race than the majority of your high school.  Pick this book up take a read and breathe away you ethnic anger.

Annotation by Roman Evanco