New Orleans Public Library

Author:

Alexie, Sherman, 1966- author.

Title:

The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / by Sherman Alexie ; art by Ellen Forney.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher, Date:

New York : Little, Brown, [2007]

Description:

230 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Summary:

Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

Target Audience Note:

600L Lexile.

Subjects:

Spokane Indians -- Juvenile fiction.

Indians of North America -- Washington (State) -- Juvenile fiction.

Indian reservations -- Washington (State) -- Juvenile fiction.

Spokane Indians -- Fiction.

Indians of North America -- Washington (State) -- Fiction.

Indian reservations -- Fiction.

Race relations -- Fiction.

Diaries -- Fiction.

Washington (State) -- Race relations -- Juvenile fiction.

Genre:

Diary fiction.

Other Author:

Forney, Ellen, illustrator.

Notes:

Ellen Forney.

Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

Accelerated Reader Grades 9-12 4 6 SD Quiz 117771 English fiction.

A Junior Library Guild selection.

Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, 2008

National Book Award, Young People's Literature, 2007.

Odyssey Award, 2009.

Notable Book for a Global Society award winner, 2008.

American Indian Youth Literature Award winner, 2008.

Contents:

The black eye of the month club -- Why chicken means so much to me -- Revenge is my middle name -- Because geometry is not a country somewhere near France -- Hope against hope -- Go means go -- Rowdy sings the blues -- How to fight monsters -- Grandmother gives me some advice -- Tears of a clown -- Halloween -- Slouching toward Thanksgiving -- My sister sends me an E-mail -- Thanksgiving -- Hunger pains -- Rowdy gives me advice about love -- Dance, dance, dance -- Don't trust your computer -- My sister sends me a letter -- Reindeer games -- And a partridge in a pear tree -- Red versus white -- Wake -- Valentine heart -- In like a lion -- Rowdy and I have a long and serious discussion about basketball -- Because Russian guys are not always geniuses -- My final freshman year report card -- Remembering -- Talking about turtles -- Discussion guide -- Interview with Ellen Forney.

LCCN:

2007022799

ISBN:

9780316013680

0316013684

9781428764507

142876450X

9780316013697

0316013692

9780316068208

0316068209

Other Number:

154698238

System Availability:

8

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

8

Control Number:

1102974

Call Number:

YA ALEXIE

Course Reserves:

0

# Local items in:

6

# System items in:

6