Weird Rules to Follow (eBook)

Kim Spencer (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2022
192 Seiten
Orca Book Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4598-3559-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Kim Spencer is a graduate of the Writers Studio at Simon Fraser University, where she focused on creative nonfiction. Her first novel, Weird Rules to Follow won the Jean Little First-Novel Award, the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, an IODE Violet Downey Book Award and a Pacific Northwest Book Award. It was also a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Awards. Kim is from the Ts’msyen Nation in northwest BC and currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.10.2022
• Verlagsort: Victoria
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Bilderbücher ► Religiöse Bilderbücher
• Schlagworte: 1980s • alcoholism • All Native Basketball Tournament • Audiobook • bingo dabbers • BIPOC • Cannery • Catholic • Coastal • coastal town • Coming of Age • Cultural Differences • Disneyland • economic disparity • eighties • first crush • Fish and Chips • fishing industry • Intergenerational Trauma • KitkatlaGitxaala Nation • lived experience • microaggressioncoastal town • Middle Grade fiction • Native American • northern communities • oolichan grease • ownvoices • Pacific Northwest • pentecostal • Poverty • Prejudice • Prince Rupert • Racism • Religion • remote • residential schools • salmonberries • school years • Sockeye salmon • stolen bicycles • summer memories • vignettes
• ISBN-10: 1-4598-3559-X / 145983559X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4598-3559-7 / 9781459835597