In addition to winning the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, True Diary also win the Horn Book Award and the California Young Reader Medal. Artist Ellen Forney provided illustrations for the novel.

Alexie drew from his own experiences for the novel, which addresses themes of racial identity, coming of age, bullying, violence, poverty, and more with Alexie’s characteristic humor. The budding cartoonist lives on the Spokane Indian Reservation, and he leaves the rez to attend an all-white high school. The protagonist and first-person narrator of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is 14-year-old Arnold Spirit Jr, or Junior. In 2017, it held the #2 slot on the list due to challenges based on profanity and situations that were deemed sexually explicit.

Send us feedback about these examples.Sherman Alexie’s National Book Award-winning The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian has appeared on ALA’s top ten challenged books list six times since its 2007 publication.

These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'part-time.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2023 Wranglers are born off-road ready, so part-time four-wheel drive is standard across the range and is controlled by a lever on the center console. 2023 Detectives would learn that Sabrina and Hearn were having an affair after meeting at a Costco where Sabrina worked part-time. Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 8 Apr. 2023 The magazine used data collected by Great Place to Work, which surveyed workers nationwide across demographics including ethnicity, race, gender and full- and part-time employees on the quality of the employee’s experience working at each company. Kayleigh Roberts, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Apr. 2023 Kardashian gushes over her new boyfriend and talks about her new part-time residence in Cleveland during an interview with Jimmy Kimmel. 2023 Swerdloff, the lecturer in the writing program, said there are 26 other part-time lecturers, or adjuncts, in the program, and that all of the nearly 150 teachers in the department are not on a tenure track. Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2023 Local 99 members currently make an average salary of $25,000, with many of them working part-time. Elizabeth Williamson, New York Times, 19 Apr. Statz, who also works in a Lands’ End distribution center in nearby Reedsburg. 2023 The couple’s sons, Tom and Ethan, farmed with their father part-time, as did Mrs. Lauren Lumpkin, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Apr. Recent Examples on the Web But the reductions come after cuts this school year, such as when Beers’s music position was reduced from full- to part-time, according to Culver.

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