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Young Adult Fiction General (see Also Headings Under Social Themes)
My Life Off-Key
- Publisher
- Orca Book Publishers
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2024
- Category
- General (see also headings under Social Themes), Emotions & Feelings, Music
- Recommended Age
- 12 to 18
- Recommended Grade
- 8 to 12
- Recommended Reading age
- 12 to 18
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781459834811
- Publish Date
- Feb 2024
- List Price
- $13.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781459834798
- Publish Date
- Feb 2024
- List Price
- $10.95
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Description
Key Selling Points
- A teen learns that she has a biological father who isn’t the dad she grew up with and that her mom has kept this secret Jen's whole life.
- This story explores family dynamics as well as themes of identity and belonging.
- The author has written a number of short novels for striving readers, including these hi-lo books in the Orca Currents line: Iggy’s World and Bigfoot Crossing , both JLG Gold Standard Selections, and The Ride Home , which was shortlisted for a BC and Yukon Book Prize.
- Although her own story is different, the author drew from personal experience, as she too grew up with one dad, only to discover as a teen that she also had a biological father who wasn't the dad she grew up with. She and her birth dad both loved to sing.
- Enhanced features (dyslexia-friendly font, cream paper, larger trim size) to increase reading accessibility for dyslexic and other striving readers.
About the author
Gail Anderson-Dargatz, whose fictional style has been coined as "Pacific Northwest Gothic" by the Boston Globe, has been published worldwide in English and in many other languages. A Recipe for Bees and The Cure For Death By Lightning were international bestsellers, and were both finalists for the prestigious Giller Prize in Canada. The Cure For Death By Lightning won the UK’s Betty Trask Prize among other awards. A Rhinestone Button was a national bestseller in Canada and her first book, The Miss Hereford Stories, was short-listed for the Leacock Award for humour. Her most recent novel, The Spawning Grounds, released in fall 2016, was again a bestseller. After nearly a decade of teaching within the Optional-Residency MFA program in creative writing at the University of British Columbia, Gail now mentors writers around the world through her own on-line forums. She lives in the Shuswap, the landscape found in so much of her writing.
Editorial Reviews
“The plot was immediate, with no time for the reader to lose interest.”
CM: Canadian Review of Materials
“Both a coming-of-age story and a road map for processing difficult emotions.”
Kirkus Reviews