| Description |
229, [16] pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| Note |
600 Lexile |
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Includes author discussion guide and interview with illustrator Ellen Forney, pages [233-245]. |
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National Book Award winner. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
The black eye of the month club -- Why chicken means so much to me -- Revenge is my middle name -- Because geometry is not a country somewhere near France -- Hope against hope -- Go means go -- Rowdy sings the blues -- How to fight monsters -- Grandmother gives me some advice -- Tears of a clown -- Halloween -- Slouching toward Thanksgiving -- My sister sends me an E-mail -- Thanksgiving -- Hunger pains -- Rowdy gives me advice about love -- Dance, dance, dance -- Don't trust your computer -- My sister sends me a letter -- Reindeer games -- And a partridge in a pear tree -- Red versus white -- Wake -- Valentine heart -- In like a lion -- Rowdy and I have a long and serious discussion about basketball -- Because Russian guys are not always geniuses -- My final freshman year report card -- Remembering -- Talking about turtles -- Discussion guide -- Interview with Ellen Forney. |
| Subject |
Spokane Indians -- Juvenile fiction.
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Indians of North America -- Washington (State) -- Juvenile fiction.
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Indian reservations -- Juvenile fiction.
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Race relations -- Juvenile fiction.
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High schools -- Juvenile fiction.
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Diaries -- Juvenile fiction.
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| Add Author |
Forney, Ellen, illustrator.
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| ISBN |
9780316013697 (pbk.) |
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0316013692 (pbk.) |
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9781439572740 |
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1439572747 |
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9780606072960 (lib. bdg.) |
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0606072969 (lib. bdg.) |
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9781428764507 (pbk.) |
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142876450X (pbk.) |
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