Committee to rule on ‘Diary’ Feb. 12

Sean C. Morgan

A reconsideration committee is reviewing the book “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian,” by Sherman Alexie, for use in eighth-grade language arts classes and is expected to give a recommendation to the District 55 superintendent Wednesday.

The young adult novel is the first-person account of Junior, a high school freshman who lives on the Spokane Indian Reservation, as he leaves his troubled reservation high school for an all-white small-town high…

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