~ Trade Paperback
~ Winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature - 2007, the Odyssey Award - 2009, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction - 2008, and the California Young Readers Medal for Young Adult - 2010
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 all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences (coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art) chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live.
"The line between dramatic monologue, verse novel, and standup comedy gets unequivocally-and hilariously and triumphantly-bent in The Absolute True-Diary of a Part-Time Indian." -- Horn Book