California Young Reader Medal
2010 · Young Adult · Winner
About This Book
Junior is a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian reservation. Born with a variety of medical problems, he is picked on by everyone but his best friend. Determined to receive a good education, Junior leaves the rez to attend an all-white school in the neighboring farm town where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Despite being condemned as a traitor to his people and enduring great tragedies, Junior attacks life with wit and humor and discovers a strength inside of himself that he never knew existed.
Inspired by his own experiences growing up, award-winning author Sherman Alexie chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one unlucky boy trying to rise above the life everyone expects him to live.
Inspired by his own experiences growing up, award-winning author Sherman Alexie chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one unlucky boy trying to rise above the life everyone expects him to live.
Awards
Grand Canyon Reader Award
2010 · Teen · Recommended
Green Mountain Book Award
2010 · Grades 9-12 · Nominee
Iowa Teen Award
2010 · Young Adult · Nominee
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award
2010 · Young Adult · Nominee
Sequoyah Book Award
2010 · High School · Nominee
Young Reader's Choice Award
2010 · Senior/Grades 10-12 · Nominee
Colorado Blue Spruce Award
2009 · Young Adult · Nominee
Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award
2009 · Grades 9-12 · Nominee
Florida Teens Read
2009 · Grades 9-12 · Nominee
Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production
2009 · Audiobook · Winner
Rhode Island Teen Book Award
2009 · Ages 12 & Up · Nominee
South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award
2009 · Young Adult · Nominee
Volunteer State Book Award
2009 · Young Adult · Nominee
American Indian Youth Literature Award
2008 · Young Adult · Winner
Book Sense Book of the Year Award
2008 · Children's Literature · Honor Book
Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens
2008 · Fourteen and Up · Recommended
Delaware Diamonds Award
2008 · High School · Winner
Georgia Peach Book Award for Teen Readers
2008 · Young Adult · Nominee
Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award
2008 · Regional Book · Winner
Tayshas Reading
2008 · Young Adult · Commended
Washington State Book Award
2008 · Children's · Winner
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
2008 · Fiction & Poetry · Winner
Cybils
2007 · Young Adult Fiction · Finalist
National Book Award
2007 · Young People's Literature · Winner
L.A. Times Book Prize
2007 · Young Adult Literature · Finalist
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