Sherman Alexie's first Young Adult novel is the story of a young cartoonist at an all white high school, where the only other American Indian is the school mascot. Using illustrations from the National Book Award winning novel as inspiration, have your child keep a two-sided journal with words on one side of the pages, and drawings on the other. Or have them right a fictional diary entry from the perspective of someone of a different race, class, gender, etc as a way to consider the circumstances of lives beyond their own.