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Kim Spencer’s best-selling debut novel, Weird Rules to Follow, was named a USBBY 2023 Outstanding International Book and a Bank Street College of Education Children’s Book Committee Best Children’s Books of the Year. It won the IODE Violet Downey Book Award, the Jean Little First Novel Award, the Geoffrey Bilson Historical Fiction Award, the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, and the PNBA Awards. It was also a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award. Kim is from the Gitxaala Nation in northwest BC.

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