Weird rules to follow

Title
  1. Weird rules to follow / Kim Spencer.
Published by
  1. [Victoria, British Columbia] : Orca Book Publishers, 2022.
  2. ©2022
Author
  1. Spencer, Kim

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Description
  1. 183 pages; 20 cm
Summary
  1. 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.
  2. "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
  1. Friendship > Juvenile fiction
  2. Best friends > Juvenile fiction
  3. Racism against Indigenous peoples > Juvenile fiction
  4. Indigenous peoples > Canada > Juvenile fiction
  5. Indigenous peoples > Juvenile fiction
  6. Nineteen eighties > Juvenile fiction
  7. Racism against Indigenous peoples
  8. Best friends
  9. Friendship
  10. Indians of North America
  11. Nineteen eighties
  12. First Nations
  13. Native Americans > Canada > Juvenile fiction
  14. Native Americans > Canada > Fiction
  15. Friendship > Fiction
  16. Nineteen eighties > Fiction
  17. Friendships
  18. Friendships > Juvenile fiction
  19. Racism
  20. Racism > Juvenile fiction
  21. Indigenous peoples
  22. Children's stories
  23. Prince Rupert (B.C.) > Juvenile fiction
  24. British Columbia > Prince Rupert
  25. Canada
Genre/Form
  1. Children's stories.
  2. Fiction.
  3. Historical fiction.
  4. Juvenile works.
  5. Novels.
  6. Juvenile fiction.
Call number
  1. JFC 23-122
Audience (note)
  1. 009-011
  2. 730L
Additional formats (note)
  1. Issued also in electronic format.
Awards (note)
  1. USBBY Outstanding International Books (IBBY), 2023
Author
  1. Spencer, Kim, author.
Title
  1. Weird rules to follow / Kim Spencer.
Publisher
  1. [Victoria, British Columbia] : Orca Book Publishers, 2022.
Copyright date
  1. ©2022
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Audience
  1. 009-011
  2. 730L Lexile
Additional formats
  1. Issued also in electronic format.
Awards
  1. USBBY Outstanding International Books (IBBY), 2023
Other form:
  1. Online version: Spencer, Kim. Weird rules to follow. Victoria, British Columbia : Orca Book Publishers, 2022 145983559X 9781459835597 (OCoLC)1286372109
LCCN
  1. 2021951896
ISBN
  1. 9781459835580 (softcover)
  2. 1459835581 (softcover)
  3. 9781518285820 (FollettBound)
  4. 1518285821 (FollettBound)
  5. 9781459835603 (ePub ebook)
  6. 9781459835597 (PDF ebook)
Research call number
  1. JFC 23-122
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