P, passes out textbooks, Junior realizes that the books are at least thirty years old. On his first day of high school at Wellpinit (the school on the reservation), Junior is particularly excited for geometry class. Rowdy always protects Junior, though, and the two boys share a special bond, telling each other their secrets and dreams. He also loves spending time with his best friend, Rowdy, whose violent temper makes the other kids afraid of him. He loves to draw, and thinks his cartoons pose his best chance of getting off the reservation and out of the poverty that has held his family and his tribe back for generations. As a result, Junior has spent a lot of his time alone, reading or drawing cartoons. This condition gave him a stutter, seizures, and a number of physical differences, such as a large head, that make him a frequent target for bullies on the reservation where he lives. Fourteen-year-old Junior, a Spokane Indian boy, was “born with water on the brain” or hydrocephalus.
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