The Absolutely True Story Of A Part-Time Indian

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I think The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian was the best book I read this year because it was funny and was are only book that was not sad this year. It had funny remarks in it like some from stuck in neutral it was also perverted. But it did make a point about how certain things happen during schools work from bullying to the different people in the school. It reminded me a lot of the movie the outsiders as well because Junior was born into being an indian but he made that not have to mader at the new school he went to. In the book The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian the main character was Junior but his best friend was rowdy he was pretty much a main character as well when the book was not either talking about a death

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