Intro; Contents; Praise for The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian; Copyright; Title Page; Dedication; Epigraph; Foreword; 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 LetterReindeer 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; Reading Group Questions; Interview with Ellen Forney; Interview with Sherman Alexie
Summary
Tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist who leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school. This book features poignant drawings that reflect the character's art based on the author's own experiences. It chronicles contemporary adolescence as seen through the eyes of one Native American boy
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Originally published: New York: Little, Brown, 2007