Sherman Alexie takes you to the Spokane Indian reservation where Junior lives. Junior, born with a variety of medical problems, gets picked on and beat up by everyone but his best friend. His family is poor but his parents want the best for Junior and his sister. Junior is cast as a traitor when he leaves the rez to attend an all-white school in a neighboring town (where the only other Indian is the school mascot). He only has to walk the 22 miles to school occassionally and is pretty good at covering up his lack of lunch money but one wonders how he can continue to be an outcast on the reservation and at school. Humorous and witty, the story outlines the contemporary adolescence of one boy who is trying to rise above the poverty that surrounds him.
http://www.teenreads.com/reviews/9780316013680.asp
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