Young Adult Fiction Coming Of Age
Bliss Adair and the First Rule of Knitting
- Publisher
- Red Deer Press
- Initial publish date
- May 2023
- Category
- Coming of Age
- Recommended Age
- 12 to 17
- Recommended Grade
- 7 to 12
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780889956841
- Publish Date
- May 2023
- List Price
- $14.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780889957329
- Publish Date
- Jun 2023
- List Price
- $12.99
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Description
"Storytelling at its finest."
-- Terry Fallis, two-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humor
Sixteen-year-old ace knitter and equation wiz, Bliss Adair, runs the Help Desk at her parents' yarn store and has no difficulty solving the most challenging math problems. But she discovers that helping her friends isn't anything like fixing a knitting mistake or prepping for a math contest. Should she get involved when giving advice could get her into trouble? But what if she doesn't? And does the first rule of knitting - don't look too far ahead - always apply to life?
For Bliss, coming of age means sorting out the complex threads of all sorts of situations in this contemporary read about friendships, mathematics, yarn, and love.
About the author
Jean Mills
is celebrated for two previous Young Adult novels, Skating Over Thin Ice and Larkin on the Shore — which won the 2020 Whippoorwill Award honoring "young adult literature that sings the authentic stories of rural people and places."
Jean spends her winters in Guelph, Ontario and the rest of the time in Pugwash, Nova Scotia.
