Beyond school life, Junior also goes through some family struggles. Junior happens to get along with the Reardan students and manages to make the varsity basketball team. He transfers to Reardan High, an all-white school. However, Junior always gets bullied because of his disabilities. Junior comes from a Native-Spokane background and attends a school with other students with a similar heritage. The book stars a high-school freshman named Arnold Spirit, Jr. Since Alexie wanted to pursue being a young adult editor, he decided to use the book as a basis for his first young adult novel. The book is a semi-autobiography based on events that took place throughout Alexie’s life. The contents really stood out to me with both its comedic and emotional moments, and I felt like I really relate myself to how the protagonist feels in his inside-world. I first read this book back in my freshman year of high school, and I still love it to this day. It is a New York Times bestseller and won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature in 2007. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a famous novel written by Sherman Alexie, a Spokane-Coeur d’Alene-Native American novelist.
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