The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- 272
- Pages
- about 5 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” is quick, funny and quietly painful: a teenager’s account of living between two worlds. Junior, a fourteen-year-old cartoonist, leaves the Spokane reservation for a nearly all-white school; his drawings tell as much as his words and are best seen in print. Some readers do not take to the voice, but the book is short enough to try anyway.
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About the book
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a first-person narrative novel by Sherman Alexie, from the perspective of a Native American teenager, Arnold Spirit Jr., also known as "Junior," a 14-year-old promising cartoonist. The book is about Junior's life on the Spokane Indian Reservation and his decision to go to a nearly all-white public high school away from the reservation. The graphic novel includes 65 comic illustrations that help further the plot.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.8 across 406 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 73% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Young adult average of 7.8. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.4 | 34 | 8% |
| Hardcover | 7.9 | 372 | 92% |
Frequently asked
What age is The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian for?
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian sits on the Young adult shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 13 and up. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 272 pages — shorter than 90% of the ranked books in Young adult.
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