The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

Review by Liam F

The Absolutely True diary of a Part-time Indian is a decent read.  It has very unique characters who are all very different.  This book can easily draw you in if you’re a teenage boy.  The book has sports, romance, fights and Indians, so if you don’t like that, then this book probably wouldn’t be good good one for you.

This book is about an Indian boy that's called “Junior.” Junior has a disorder, where his brain filled up with water when he was born.  He appears all skin and bones and has a huge head. He grows up on an Indian reservation filled with poverty and alcohol.  First he goes a very poor school and freshman year he gets in trouble. Then his teachers realized that he is a genius and that he isn’t going to get anywhere in his school he is in now.  After making his decision to move to Reardan (an all white school), he gets bullied by everyone at his new school.  His life looks awful because he is in a very racist school and doesn’t have many friends.  After meeting a girl named Penelope, his life takes a turn for the better.

I suggest this book because it has a good pace and it is just a quality book.  This is a real page turner because there always something new going on each chapter.  Although there is something new each chapter, there are also some tragedies towards the end of the book. The Absolutely True diary of a Part-time Indian is sometimes very sad and has a lot of alcohol abuse. Overall I would say that the book was one of the better novels I’ve read.