In the novel The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie, a young boy named Jounior is faced with difficulties throughout his life and now faces starting high-school. The one problem is that he is an Indian and wants to get a better education then on the reserve were nobody cares about education and nobody even cares about leaving anymore. Almost everyone on the reservation is poor, addicted to alcohal, or beats family members, its really rough. The kids grow up in hostial enviorments so they do the same things their parents did. Jonior sees things deffrently and finds hope for himself to get out. He also was born with fluid in his brain witch makes him more easy to head tramma, seziers, and has poor eye sight. So Jonior moves to a small privet white school and has major issues thrusted apon him.

Once he moves to his new school he has a hard time fitting in. It turn into a classic new kid story, were he does not fit in then meets a pretty girl and tries to impress her,then he gets into a fight what someone because thats all he knows, that makes people scared of him but sorta respect him at the same time. He tries out for the basketball team and makes the varsaty team in 9th grade witch is impressive. Things end up pretty well at school, but home is a compleatly differant story. His best friend, and the whole reservation despise him and beat him up because he "ditched the reserv. for white people." All together its a pretty great book that you need to read to compleatly understand, it has lots of twist and turns and funny details inbetween with a tarific ending that has to be read to be belived and enjoyed.