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"The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie was challenged by the grandparent of a Derby ninth-grader. A district committee decided to no longer allow teachers to use the novel in lessons and to remove it from the library at Derby North Middle School.

"The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie was challenged by the grandparent of a Derby ninth-grader. A district committee decided to no longer allow teachers to use the novel in lessons and to remove it from the library at Derby North Middle School.

A critically acclaimed but controversial novel told from the perspective of a Native American teenager will no longer be taught at Derby High School after a district committee removed it from a list o

"The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie was challenged by the grandparent of a Derby ninth-grader. A district committee decided to no longer allow teachers to use the novel in lessons and to remove it from the library at Derby North Middle School.

Imagine things being so bad that one day you decide to leave your home, the people you love and part of yourself in search for a better life, in the hope of having a future – any future. You are willing to risk it all, even riding La Bestia, the Death Train. Join Chico, Pulga, and Pequeña as they travel from Guatemala, going through Mexico following La Bestia and hoping to make it to the U.S. border. This story is inspired by real, current events and once you take this journey with them, you ...

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