The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
by Sherman Alexie. Cussing, fighting, sex, drugs. The kids love reading this book. We just started. Every Sunday night study hall here is a little different and the fourteen of us in our Journalism clan spend the first thirty minutes reading aloud as a group, so tonight we began reading the first fourteen pages or so. I think this book is going to be a great read for them...with lots of things to relate to. The book centers in on Spokane Indian culture on the reservation and the movie Smoke Signals is based off the story...we'll be watching that soon in class. Our last book was also a great pick: The House on Mango Street written by Sandra Cisnos. I highly reccomend both of these books. They're short quick brevity imagination inspiring.