The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.

Alexie, Sherman. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. New York: Little Brown and Company, 2007. 230 pages. Hardback. $16.99, ISBN 13 978-0316013680

Awards:

Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults, YALSA 2009

Best Books of 2007

Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Fiction and Poetry

California Young Reader Medal

National Book Award for Young People's Literature

Odyssey Award

Voted Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults from Young Adult Library Services Association

Arnold Spirit, a geeky Native American and his friend Rowdy explore reservation life through cartoons and humor.  He attempts to overcome the pitfalls of reservation life, but the effects of alcoholism and poverty abound.

Things that are going wrong in Arnolds life:

1. -hydrocephalus, teeth
2. -poverty, dog
3. -Rowdy
4. -his mother’s book
5. -new school
6. -basketball