Sherman Alexie

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1) The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian

Author

Alexie, Sherman

Language

English

Appears on these lists

NYT - Children’s Paperback Books
NYT - Young Adult
Shelf Indulgence Book Club

Formats

Book, WPL Audiobook on CD - YA

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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.

2) You don't have to say you love me: a memoir

Author

Alexie, Sherman

Language

English

Formats

Book, Book on CD

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Presents a literary memoir of poems, essays, and intimate family photos that reflect on the author's complicated relationship with his mother and his disadvantaged childhood on a Native American reservation.

3) Thunder Boy Jr

Author

Alexie, Sherman

Publisher

Little, Brown and Company

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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#ownvoices: Indigenous Books for Kids
Native American History
Read in Color Picture Books

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"Thunder Boy Jr. wants a normal name ... one that's all his own. Dad is known as Big Thunder, but Little Thunder doesn't want to share a name"--

4) Flight: a novel

Author

Alexie, Sherman

Publisher

Black Cat

Edition

1st ed.

Language

English

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From the New York Times bestselling author of multiple award-winning books comes this powerful, fast, and timely story of a troubled foster teenager—a boy who is not a "legal" Indian because he was never claimed by his father—who learns the true meaning of terror.

About to commit a devastating act, young "Zits" finds himself shot back through time on a shocking sojourn through moments of violence in American history. He

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5) Heart berries: a memoir

Author

Mailhot, Terese Marie

Publisher

Counterpoint

Language

English

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"Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder; Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for...