ATDPTI

The kindness of this human race never ceases to amaze me. I feel like with the news and the media and everything else, we focus on the bad people too much.

Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian captures this kindness when his new friends at Reardan help him out. Penelope shows true empathy in several spots, and even defies her own father's hatred of Indians.

Even when everyone else around her is being racist, she still pulls through for Junior. That thought has stuck with me throughout all of this book.