The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian
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- Author : Sherman Alexie
- Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Release : 10 January 2012
- ISBN : 9780316219303
- Page : 272 pages
- Rating : 3.5/5 from 532 voters
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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. With a forward by Markus Zusak, interviews with Sherman Alexie and Ellen Forney, and four-color interior art throughout, this edition is perfect for fans and collectors alike.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- Author : Sherman Alexie
- Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
- Release Date : 2012-01-10
- ISBN : 9780316219303
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
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- Author : Sherman Alexie
- Publisher : Hachette UK
- Release Date : 2012-01-10
- ISBN : 9780316219303
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
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian
- Author : Sherman Alexie
- Publisher : Ernst Klett Sprachen
- Release Date : 2009
- ISBN : 312578042X
Arnold "Junior" Spirit, 14 Jahre alt, intelligent, witzig und selbsternannter "retard" will etwas aus seinem Leben machen. Als Bewohner eines Indianerreservats wäre es allerdings sehr, sehr ungewöhnlich, wenn es ihm gelingen würde. Er entscheidet sich also, sein Leben zu ändern, indem er die Schule wechselt. Seine neue Schule ist voller erfolgreicher weisser Kids, dessen Jungs ihn erst mal alle zusammenschlagen wollen. Aber Arnold wehrt sich, und ausserdem entdeckt er ein Talent für Basketball ... und für Mä
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- Author : Kirby Larson
- Publisher : Yearling
- Release Date : 2007-12-26
- ISBN : 9780375846410
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- Author : Meg Cabot
- Publisher : Harper Collins
- Release Date : 2009-10-13
- ISBN : 9780061958465
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War Dances
- Author : Sherman Alexie
- Publisher : Open Road Media
- Release Date : 2013-10-15
- ISBN : 9781480457225
The bestselling, award-winning author’s “fiercely freewheeling collection of stories and poems about the tragicomedies of ordinary lives” (O, The Oprah Magazine). Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, War Dances blends short stories, poems, call-and-response, and more into something that only Sherman Alexie could have written. Ordinary men stand at the threshold of profound change, from a story about a famous writer caring for a dying but still willful father, to the tale of a young Indian boy
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- Author : Richard Wagamese
- Publisher : Anchor Canada
- Release Date : 2018-10-02
- ISBN : 9780385693257
At three years old, Garnet Raven is taken from his home on an Ojibway reserve and placed in a series of foster homes. In his mid-teens, he escapes at the first available opportunity only to find himself cast adrift on the streets of the big city, trying to avoid its bleak underbelly. By age twenty, Garnet is in jail. While there, he receives an unexpected letter from his long-forgotten native family, and the sudden communication from his past spurs him
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- Author : Asphyxia
- Publisher : Annick Press
- Release Date : 2021-11-09
- ISBN : 9781773215303
Part coming of age, part call to action, this fast-paced #ownvoices novel about a Deaf teenager is a unique and inspiring exploration of what it means to belong. Smart, artistic, and independent, sixteen year old Piper is tired of trying to conform. Her mom wants her to be “normal,” to pass as hearing, to get a good job. But in a time of food scarcity, environmental collapse, and political corruption, Piper has other things on her mind—like survival. Piper
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- Author : Sherman Alexie
- Publisher : Open Road Media
- Release Date : 2013-10-15
- ISBN : 9781480457201
Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist: A “stellar collection” of stories about navigating life off the reservation, filled with laughter and heartbreak (People). In these lyrical, affectionate tales from the author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, characters navigate the crossroads of culture, battle stereotypes, and find themselves through everything from politics to basketball. Richard, the narrator of “Lawyer’s League,” grows up in Seattle, the son of “
Flight
- Author : Sherman Alexie
- Publisher : Open Road Media
- Release Date : 2013-10-15
- ISBN : 9781480457218
From the National Book Award–winning author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, the tale of a troubled boy’s trip through history. Half Native American and half Irish, fifteen-year-old “Zits” has spent much of his short life alternately abused and ignored as an orphan and ward of the foster care system. Ever since his mother died, he’s felt alienated from everyone, but, thanks to the alcoholic father whom he’s never met, especially disconnected from
Conversations with Sherman Alexie
- Author : Nancy J. Peterson
- Publisher : Unknown
- Release Date : 2009
- ISBN : 1604732806
A collection of interviews ranging from1993 to 2007 feature the author speaking about the themes and ideas behind his novels, screenplays, and poetry collections.
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- Author : Sarra Manning
- Publisher : Random House
- Release Date : 2011
- ISBN : 9780593066515
Sweet, bookish Neve Slater always plays by the rules. And the number one rule is that good-natured fat girls like her don't get guys like gorgeous, handsome William, heir to Neve's heart since university. But William's been in LA for three years, and Neve's been slimming down and re-inventing herself so that when he returns, he'll fall head over heels in love with the new, improved her. So she's not that interested in other men. Until her sister Celia points
Street Without a Name
- Author : Kapka Kassabova
- Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
- Release Date : 2012-05-23
- ISBN : 9781742539003
After years on the outside, Bulgaria has finally made it into the EU club, but beyond the clichés about undrinkable plonk, cheap property, and assassins with poison-tipped umbrellas, the country remains a largely unknown quantity. Born on the muddy outskirts of Sofia, Kapka Kassabova grew up under Communism, got away just as soon as she could, and has loved and hated her homeland in equal measure ever since. In this illuminating and entertaining memoir, Kapka revisits Bulgaria and her
Blasphemy
- Author : Sherman Alexie
- Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
- Release Date : 2012-10-02
- ISBN : 9780802194060
Sherman Alexie’s stature as a writer of stories, poems, and novels has soared over the course of his twenty-book, twenty-year career. His wide-ranging, acclaimed stories from the last two decades have established him as a star in contemporary American literature. A bold and irreverent observer of life among Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest, the daring, versatile, funny, and outrageous Alexie showcases all his talents in Blasphemy, where he unites twelve beloved classics with twelve new stories in one
Reservation Blues
- Author : Sherman Alexie
- Publisher : Open Road Media
- Release Date : 2013-10-15
- ISBN : 9781480457171
Winner of the American Book Award and the Murray Morgan Prize, Sherman Alexie’s brilliant first novel tells a powerful tale of Indians, rock ’n’ roll, and redemption Coyote Springs is the only all-Indian rock band in Washington State—and the entire rest of the world. Thomas Builds-the-Fire takes vocals and bass guitar, Victor Joseph hits lead guitar, and Junior Polatkin rounds off the sound on drums. Backup vocals come from sisters Chess and Checkers Warm Water. The band sings