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Odyssey Award as the year’s “best audiobook for children or young adults”, read by Alexie (Frederick, MD: Recorded Books, LLC, 2008, ISBN 1-4361-2490-5).

Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Fiction and Poetry.

“Top Ten Best Books for Young Adults”, Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA).

American Indian Library Association Best Young Adult Book.

American Indian Youth Literature Awards.

“Best Books of 2007”, School Library Journal.

National Book Foundation award for Young People’s Literature.

Rowdy is extremely supportive of Junior’s art, and Junior thinks this proves his and Rowdy’s friendship. Junior loves drawing cartoons, and many of his drawings are included in the book. Junior’s parents are alcoholics and his sister, Mary, spends all her time in the family basement. Even today, other Indians on the reservation or, as Junior calls it, the “rez,” bully him and call him names like “hydrohead.” Junior’s best friend, Rowdy, often promises to protect him, but Rowdy’s own violent tendencies sometimes prevent him from being all that helpful.

Worst of all, as a small child, he had seizures. He had too many teeth and had to have some removed, and he is far-sighted in one eye and near-sighted in the other. The early condition, however, left Junior with a lisp and stutter. How doctors predicted he would die from complications of hydrocephalus-his being born with excess spinal fluid on the brain. (“Junior”) tells about his early life on the Spokane Indian reservation.

Considered a traitor, Arnold is caught between two worlds: his home on the reservation and the white high school he attends.The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian Synopsis:Īrnold Spirit Jr. At times, poverty is just terrible and thus Arnold sometimes wishes that he could draw "a fist full of twenty dollar bills, and perform some magic trick and make them real".Īrnold, like Sherman Alexie, makes a choice to leave the reservation and attend the white school 22 miles away in Reardan.

His parents are alcoholics and the family poor. He is the reservation outcast – an outsider – and he is routinely bullied and beaten up. Arnold or Junior, as he is often called, is partly based on Alexie’s own experiences. In this novel we meet Arnold Spirit Jr., a fourteen-year-old Native American. In his work he draws upon his own experiences. Alexie is well known for writing about life on the reservation and the challenges that the USA's native population face today. Sherman Alexie grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, in the state of Washington.