- Race relations, Young adult fiction, Indians of North America, Diaries
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.
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- Author
- Sherman Alexie
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Mu ma wen hua shi ye gu fen you xian gong si, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Litte, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Editions
- 34
- Language
- Chinese, heb, English
- ISBN
- 9780316015424
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Sherman J. Alexie, Jr., was born in October 1966. A Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, he grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, WA, about 50 miles northwest of Spokane, WA. Alexie has published 18 books to date. Alexie is an award-winning and prolific author and occasional comedian. Much of his writing draws on his experiences as a modern Native American. Sherman's best known works include The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Smoke Signals, and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. He lives in Seattle, Washington
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