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Weird rules to follow
- Title
- Weird rules to follow / Kim Spencer.
- Author
- Spencer, Kim
- Publication
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : Orca Book Publishers, 2022.
- ©2022
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Book/Text | Use in library | JFC 23-122 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 183 pages; 20 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- "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."--
- Subject
- Friendship > Juvenile fiction
- Best friends > Juvenile fiction
- Racism against Indigenous peoples > Juvenile fiction
- Indigenous peoples > Canada > Juvenile fiction
- Indigenous peoples > Juvenile fiction
- Nineteen eighties > Juvenile fiction
- Racism against Indigenous peoples
- Best friends
- Friendship
- Indians of North America
- Nineteen eighties
- First Nations
- Native Americans > Canada > Juvenile fiction
- Native Americans > Canada > Fiction
- Friendship > Fiction
- Nineteen eighties > Fiction
- Friendships
- Friendships > Juvenile fiction
- Racism
- Racism > Juvenile fiction
- Indigenous peoples
- Children's stories
- Prince Rupert (B.C.) > Juvenile fiction
- British Columbia > Prince Rupert
- Canada
- Genre/Form
- Children's stories.
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Novels.
- Juvenile fiction.
- Audience (note)
- 009-011
- 730L
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Awards (note)
- USBBY Outstanding International Books (IBBY), 2023
- Call Number
- JFC 23-122
- ISBN
- 9781459835580
- 1459835581
- 9781518285820
- 1518285821
- 9781459835603 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781459835597 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2021951896
- OCLC
- 1286372117
- Author
- Spencer, Kim, author.
- Title
- Weird rules to follow / Kim Spencer.
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : Orca Book Publishers, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Audience
- 009-011730L Lexile
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Awards
- USBBY Outstanding International Books (IBBY), 2023
- Other Form:
- Online version: Spencer, Kim. Weird rules to follow. Victoria, British Columbia : Orca Book Publishers, 2022 145983559X 9781459835597 (OCoLC)1286372109
- Research Call Number
- JFC 23-122