Weird Rules to Follow

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Weird Rules to Follow is written by Kim Spencer and published by Orca Book Publishers. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1459835603 (ISBN 10) and 9781459835603 (ISBN 13).

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.