![]() ![]() Junior happens to get along with the Reardan students and manages to make the varsity basketball team. ![]() He transfers to Reardan High, an all-white school. However, Junior always gets bullied because of his disabilities. Junior comes from a Native-Spokane background and attends a school with other students with a similar heritage. The book stars a high-school freshman named Arnold Spirit, Jr. ![]() Since Alexie wanted to pursue being a young adult editor, he decided to use the book as a basis for his first young adult novel. The book is a semi-autobiography based on events that took place throughout Alexie’s life. The contents really stood out to me with both its comedic and emotional moments, and I felt like I really relate myself to how the protagonist feels in his inside-world. I first read this book back in my freshman year of high school, and I still love it to this day. It is a New York Times bestseller and won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature in 2007. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a famous novel written by Sherman Alexie, a Spokane-Coeur d’Alene-Native American novelist. ![]()
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