{"title":"Kim Spencer","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"weird-rules-to-follow-book-kim-spencer-9781459835580","title":"Weird Rules to Follow","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of a 2024 PNBA Book Award\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2023 IODE Violet Downey Book Award\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2023 Jean Little First-Novel Award\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2023 Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2023 TD Canadian Children's Literature Award \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e★\"Readers will be left with a rich image of Mia's world and the family and people that surround her as well as a strong sense of how culture and class impact people's experiences. A touching exploration of identity and culture.\"--Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMia knows her family is very different than her best friend's.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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. 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Spencer draws readers into Mia's world and family life...Both Indigenous and non-Indigenous readers will enjoy reading about Mia's life and are likely to come away wanting more.\" -- Quill \u0026amp; Quire, starred review\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt's the summer of 1989, and Mia is on her own--adjusting to life without her ex-best friend, Lara.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSummer vacation starts off well enough as Mia binges MuchMusic and learns how to jar fish with her aunty and uncle. Then her grandma starts feeling unwell. At first, Mia isn't too worried, but when a call comes in from the clinic to say her grandmother has to go to the hospital in Vancouver, everyone realizes this is serious.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMia and her mom and aunties head to the city to be by her grandmother's side. Mia mostly ping-pongs from the hospital to the motel, but she also gets to see some of the city and eat (too much) takeout. 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Little Velvet began to grow and she makes many friends at her forever home. Little Velvet soon forgets that she is an orphan and happily begins her adventures along with her many friends. Velvet begins to thrive and her antics make everyone giggle and laugh. 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