Sherman Alexie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Collection of new stories about Native Americans who, like all Americans, find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads, faced with heart-rending, tragic, sometimes wondrous moments of being that test their loyalties, their capacities, and their notions of who they are and who they love
2) Blasphemy
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Sherman Alexies stature as a writer of stories, poems, and novels has soared over the course of his twenty-book, twenty-year career. His wide-ranging, acclaimed stories from the last two decades, from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven to his most recent PEN/Faulkner award-winning War Dances, have established him as a star in modern literature.A bold and irreverent observer of life among Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest, the daring,...
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Description
From the publisher. Set in Arizona, Smoke Signals is the story of two Native American boys on a journey. Victor is the stoic, handsome son of an alcoholic father who has abandoned his family. Thomas is a gregarious, goofy young man who lost both his parents in a fire at a very young age. Through storytelling, Thomas makes every effort to connect with the people around him; Victor, in contrast, uses his quiet countenance to gain strength and confidence....
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Appears on these lists
CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
Description
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
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Appears on these lists
CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
CSL - Short Story Anthologies
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
CSL - Short Story Anthologies
Description
In his darkly comic short story collection, the author brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation.
13) Smoke Signals
Series
Pub. Date
c2011
Formats
Description
Depicts two young Native Americans, Victor and Thomas, who leave their small town to retrieve the remains of Victor's father.
14) Smoke signals
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
Setting: Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation, Idaho, 1976. "Young Indian man Thomas is a nerd on his reservation.... Victor and Thomas embark on a trip to Phoenix to retrieve the ashes of Victor's father. Victor is angry at his father for leaving his family and angry with himself for the grudge that he carries. Through the help of Thomas and his father's final friend Suzy, Victor is able to find resolution and peace"--Internet movie database, March 13,...
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