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

Author

Alexie, Sherman

Series

Thorndike Press large print literacy bridge

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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) Reservation blues

Author

Alexie, Sherman

Publisher

Atlantic Monthly Press

Pub. Date

c1995

Physical Desc

306 p. ; 24 cm.

3) Thunder Boy Jr

Author

Alexie, Sherman

Publisher

Little, Brown and Company

Pub. Date

2016.

Physical Desc

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm

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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) Heart berries: a memoir

Author

Mailhot, Terese Marie

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Native American Heritage Month

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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...

5) 100 years of the best American short stories

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Pub. Date

[2015]

Physical Desc

xxi, 723 pages ; 24 cm.

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Collects forty short stories published between 1915 and 2015, from writers that include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and Alice Munro that exemplify their era and stand the test of time.

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Sherman Alexie

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

2) Reservation blues

3) Thunder Boy Jr

4) Heart berries: a memoir

5) 100 years of the best American short stories