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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
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Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil in 1931, and was murdered seven years later. He reappears in 1992 on the Spokane Indian Reservation and meets Thomas Builds-the-Fire, who starts Coyote Springs, an all-Indian Catholic rock-and-roll band.
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Language
English
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While a serial killer stalks and scalps white men in Seattle, John Smith, a Native American adopted into a white family, becomes dissatisfied with his life, and, as the killer searches for his next victim, John descends into the madness of Seattle's homeless.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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"Alexie reveals himself to be a more fearless writer than one might ever have imagined: the stories are bold, uncensored, raucous,and sexy ...apt and true...The lives he portrays are so finely detailed, the tales so carefullly woven , that even the most culturally sheltered reader is transported."
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English
Description
When his mother passed away at the age of 78, Sherman Alexie responded the only way he knew how: he wrote. The result is this memoir. Featuring 78 poems and 78 essays, Alexie shares raw, angry, funny, profane, tender memories of a childhood few can imagine -- growing up dirt-poor on an Indian reservation, one of four children raised by alcoholic parents. Throughout, a portrait emerges of his mother as a beautiful, mercurial, abusive, intelligent,...
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