The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (National Book Award Winner)

by Sherman Alexie

Paperback, 2009

Status

Available

Call number

813.54

Genres

Collection

Your library

Publication

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (2009), Edition: Reprint, 229 pages

Description

Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

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Awards

National Book Award (Finalist — Young People's Literature — 2007)
A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book (2007)
Boston Globe–Horn Book Award (Winner — Fiction & Poetry — 2008)
Soaring Eagle Book Award (Nominee — 2010)
Sequoyah Book Award (Nominee — High School — 2010)
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LA Times Book Prize (Finalist — Young Adult Literature — 2007)
BCCB Blue Ribbon Book (2007)
Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (Nominee — 2010)
Kentucky Bluegrass Award (Nominee — Grades 9-12 — 2009)
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — Young Adult — 2010)
Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — 2010)
Great Lakes Great Books Award (Winner — 2009)
Iowa Teen Award (Nominee — 2010)
Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award (Winner — 2008)
Indies Choice Book Award (Honor Book — Children's Literature — 2008)
Green Mountain Book Award (Nominee — 2010)
Thumbs Up! Award (Honor — 2008)
Lincoln Award: Illinois Teen Readers' Choice Award (Nominee — 2011)
South Dakota Teen Choice Book Awards (Nominee — 2010)
Grand Canyon Reader Award (Recommended — 2010)
Colorado Blue Spruce Award (Nominee — 2009)
California Young Reader Medal (Nominee — 2010)
Florida Teens Read Award (Nominee — 2010)
NCSLMA Battle of the Books (High School — 2018)
IBBY Honour Book
Odyssey Award (Winner — 2009)
Delete Key Award (Finalist — 2008)
The White Ravens (2008)
Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers (Nominee — 2009)
Rhode Island Teen Book Award (Nominee — 2009)
CYBILS Awards (Finalist — Young Adult Fiction — 2007)
National Parenting Product Awards (Winner — 2007)
Peter Pan Award (Winner — 2009)
James Cook Teen Book Award (Honor Book — 2009)
American Indian Youth Literature Award (Winner — Picture Book — 2008)
One Maryland One Book selection (2011)
Best Fiction for Young Adults (Selection — 2008)
CCBC Choices (2008)
Notable Book for a Global Society (2008)
ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults (2010)
ALA Outstanding Books for the College Bound (2009)
Capitol Choices Noteworthy Book for Children and Teens (Audiobooks — 2009)
Great Reads from Great Places (Washington — 2008)
Books From All 50 States (and Washington, D.C.!) (Washington)
School Library Journal Best Book of the Year (2007)
Amazing Audiobooks for Young Adults (2009)
Books To Read Aloud with Children Twelve & Over
El día de los niños / El día de los libros (2013)

Language

English

Original publication date

2007-09-12

ISBN

0316013692 / 9780316013697

UPC

884829688034

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