Weird Rules to Follow

Availability:
Ebook in format. Available for immediate download after we receive your order

DRM:
Open - No Protection

Publication Year:
2024

ISBN-13: 9781459842533

<p><strong>Key Selling Points</strong></p>

<ul><li>A young Indigenous girl growing up in the 1980s learns some hard lessons about friendship, family and cultural differences.</li>

<li>This coming-of-age debut novel explores the themes of racism, microaggressions and friendship through a series of vignettes.</li>

<li><em>Weird Rules to Follow </em>offers a glimpse of life in a remote coastal fishing community from an Indigenous perspective.</li>

<li>The author is Indigenous and a graduate of SFU’s Writer’s Studio, where she specialized in creative nonfiction.</li>

<li>The narrative is told in “scenes from a life” episodes that form a cohesive whole.</li>

<li><em>Weird Rules to Follow </em>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. </li>

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