The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Element	Value	Value Standard
dc.title	The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-time Indian
dc.creator	Alexie, Sherman
dc.subject	Fiction – Native America, Fiction – Indian, Fiction – Reservation, Fiction – Teenage Boys, Fiction – Race relations, Fiction – alcoholism, Fiction – cartoonist
dc.description	Junior is 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.
dc.publisher	Little Brown Books for Young Readers
dc.contributor	Sherman Alexie and Ellen Forney – Illustrator
dc.date	September 12, 2007
dc.type	Text
dc.format	Hardcover, 240 pages, 5.8 x 0.9 x 8.5 inches
dc.identifier	978-0316013680	ISBN
dc.source	http://www.amazon.com/Absolutely-True-Diary-Part-Time-Indian/dp/0316013684/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1462129354&sr=1-1
dc.language	en-US
dc.relation	The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie, September 12, 2007
dc.rights	All rights reserved

Arnold Spirit, a goofy-looking dork with a decent jumpshot, spends his time lamenting life on the “poor-ass” Spokane Indian reservation, drawing cartoons (which accompany, and often provide more insight than, the narrative), and, along with his aptly named pal Rowdy, laughing those laughs over anything and nothing that affix best friends so intricately together. When a teacher pleads with Arnold to want more, to escape the hopelessness of the rez, Arnold switches to a rich white school and immediately becomes as much an outcast in his own community as he is a curiosity in his new one. He weathers the typical teenage indignations and triumphs like a champ but soon faces far more trying ordeals as his home life begins to crumble and decay amidst the suffocating mire of alcoholism on the reservation

From the Huffington Post on a school in Idaho that has banned the book:

The school board’s decision to seek an alternative book to convey “the cultural messages” of Alexie’s work came after complaints from parents that the book contained sexually charged material inappropriate for their children, was peppered with pejorative terms for women, people of various races and those with learning disabilities and mocked Christian beliefs.

Descriptions retrieved 01 May 2016 from: http://www.amazon.com/Absolutely-True-Diary-Part-Time-Indian/dp/0316013684/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1462129354&sr=1-1 and

Idaho bans native american book. Huffington Post. Retrieved 01 May 2016: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/04/idaho-bans-native-american-book_n_5094525.html