Rules

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Hardcover, 200 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 2006 by Scholastic Press.

ISBN:
978-0-439-44382-1
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OCLC Number:
61109244

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2 stars (1 review)

Twelve-year-old Catherine just wants a normal life. Which is near impossible when you have a brother with autism and a family that revolves around his disability. She's spent years trying to teach David the rules-from "a peach is not a funny-looking apple" to "keep your pants on in public"-in order to stop his embarrassing behaviors. But the summer Catherine meets Jason, a paraplegic boy, and Kristi, the next-door friend she's always wished for, it's her own shocking behavior that turns everything upside down and forces her to ask: What is normal?

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reviewed Rules by Cynthia Lord

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2 stars

this book won a newberry honor award and had me almost to the end.
a pre-teen girl with an autistic brother is so eager to be 'normal' that she omits some details of her life to a new friend. in that way, it was so believable and relatable for the jr fiction crowd, but it ends with way too much recrimination and guilt.
personally, i don't think the new friend had any right to her righteousness. their friendship is new, and untested, and this new girl has yet to show any loyalty toward the main character or her brother. it's not fair that the main character is saddled with all that guilt

Subjects

  • Autism -- Fiction.
  • Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.
  • People with disabilities -- Fiction.