Description "Junior is a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian reservation. Born with a variety of medical problems, he is picked on by everyone but his best friend. Determined to receive a good education, Junior leaves the rez to attend an all-white school in the neighboring farm town where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Despite being condemned as a traitor to his people and enduring great tragedies, Junior attacks life with with and humor and discovers a strength inside of himself that he never knew existed. Written with raw emotion by acclaimed writer Sherman Alexie, THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN, his first novel for young adults, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one unlucky boy trying to rise above the life everyone expects him to live." - the front flap of the hardback dust cover
Advance Praise "Excellent in every way, poignany and really funny and heartwarming and honest and wise and smart... I have no doubt that in a year or so it'll both be winning awards and being banned." - Neil Gaiman, bestselling author of Coraline and Stardust
"I know Sherman Alexie is on his game when I'm reading his book, laughing my ass off while my heart is breaking. THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN captivates absolutely." - Chris Crutcher, author of Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
"Arnold Spirit's offbeat coming-of-age tale will touch your battle-scarred teenaged heart." - Megan Kelso, cartoonist and author of The Squirrel Mother