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Book Review of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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Junior discovers that he's pretty smart for an Indian boy living on the Spokane Indian Reservation. His teacher helps him to be true to himself, even after their classroom altercation. He finds himself breaking out of the mold and going to an all white farm town school. He doesn't fit in either world to begin with. And so this is his journey to survive high school while living on the rez!
Junior draws his cartoons and gives the story as he sees it from a teenage boys perspective!
A beautiful coming of age story.