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Weird rules to follow / Kim Spencer.

Spencer, Kim. (Author).

Summary:

"In this novel for middle readers told in vignettes, Mia and her best friend Lara have very different experiences growing up in a northern fishing community in the 1980s."--Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1459835581
  • ISBN: 9781459835580 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: 183 pages
  • Publisher: [Victoria, British Columbia] : Orca Book Publishers, 2022.

Content descriptions

Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:
LSC 15.40
Subject: Nineteen eighties > Juvenile fiction.
Best friends > Juvenile fiction.
Social classes > Juvenile fiction.
Indigenous peoples > Juvenile fiction.
Identity (Psychology) > Juvenile fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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  • Baker & Taylor
    "In this novel for middle readers told in vignettes, Mia and her best friend, Lara, have very different experiences growing up in a northern fishing community in the 1980s"--
  • Orca Book Publishers

    Key Selling Points

    • A young Indigenous girl growing up in the 1980s learns some hard lessons about friendship, family and cultural differences.
    • This coming-of-age debut novel explores the themes of racism, microaggressions and friendship through a series of vignettes.
    • Weird Rules to Follow offers a glimpse of life in a remote coastal fishing community from an Indigenous perspective.
    • The author is Indigenous and a graduate of SFU’s Writer’s Studio, where she specialized in creative nonfiction.
    • The narrative is told in “scenes from a life” episodes that form a cohesive whole.
    • Weird Rules to Follow won a 2024 PNBA Book Award, the 2023 IODE Violet Downey Book Award, the 2023 Jean Little First-Novel Award, the 2023 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People and the 2023 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award.

    Winner of a 2024 PNBA Book Award

    Winner of the 2023 IODE Violet Downey Book Award

    Winner of the 2023 Jean Little First-Novel Award

    Winner of the 2023 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People

    Winner of the 2023 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award

    ?“Readers will be left with a rich image of Mia’s world and the family and people that surround her as well as a strong sense of how culture and class impact people’s experiences. A touching exploration of identity and culture.”—Kirkus Reviews

    Mia knows her family is very different than her best friend's.

    In the 1980s, the coastal fishing town of Prince Rupert is booming. There is plenty of sockeye salmon in the nearby ocean, which means the fishermen are happy and there is plenty of work at the cannery. Eleven-year-old Mia and her best friend, Lara, have known each other since kindergarten. Like most tweens, they like to hang out and compare notes on their crushes and dream about their futures. But even though they both live in the same cul-de-sac, Mia’s life is very different from her non-Indigenous, middle-class neighbor. Lara lives with her mom, her dad and her little brother in a big house, with two cars in the drive and a view of the ocean. Mia lives in a shabby wartime house that is full of relatives—her churchgoing grandmother, binge-drinking mother and a rotating number of aunts, uncles and cousins. Even though their differences never seemed to matter to the two friends, Mia begins to notice how adults treat her differently, just because she is Indigenous. Teachers, shopkeepers, even Lara’s parents—they all seem to have decided who Mia is without getting to know her first.

    The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.

  • Orca Book Publishers
    In this novel for middle readers told in vignettes, Mia and her best friend, Lara, have very different experiences growing up in a northern fishing community in the 1980s.

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