The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

novel by Alexie

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  • Sherman Alexie
    In Sherman Alexie: Literary career

    …fueled a young adult novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007), which won a National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and has become a modern classic of that genre of literature. His novel Flight (2007) centers on a teenage orphan who travels through time, viewing moments…

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young adult literature

  • Jacqueline Woodson
    In young adult literature: Diversity in YA literature and changing readerships

    Speak (1999), Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007), Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming (2014), Erika L. Sánchez’s I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (2017), Akwaeke Emezi’s Pet (2019), and George M. Johnson’s All Boys Aren’t Blue (2020). However, these books have not been…

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