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Buy Rules (Newbery Honor Book) by Cynthia Lord available and for sale on Brightsurf
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by Cynthia Lord
| | List Price: | $15.99 | | Price: | $10.87 | | You Save: | $5.12 (32%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 1267 | | Studio: | Scholastic Press | | | Binding: | Hardcover | | Reading Level: | Ages 9-12 | | Number Of Pages: | 208 | | Publication Date: | April 01, 2006 | | Publisher: | Scholastic Press |
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Product Description
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? |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 67 reviews)
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What a terrific book! 
This book opened my eyes as to how it must be for a sibling of a child with a disability. I work with children with disabilities and thought this would be a great book to expose my own child to.
July 24, 2008 | |
review from a parent of a son with autism and a teacher
This book was fantastic! I wil definitely read it with my students this upcoming school year. My 5 year old son has autism and goes to the elementary school that I teach at. He will start Kindergarten this year. Granted he does not have many of the autistic characteristics that David does, but the author is dead on accurate when she describes how others may look at a child with autism. Children on the autistic spectrum vary in many ways. No two are the same. It is nice to finally see an author portray a child with autism who talks. When people meet my son they are shocked when they find out he as autism because he is very verbal (even orders his dinner when we go out to dinner and said the Pledge of Allegiance on our school news show), does not flap his arms or flick his fingers, does not rock, and he does not like spinning things. He also loves to give and receive hugs. I admire the author for bringing her life experience into print so others, especially younger people, will understand autism better.
July 13, 2008 | |
Something for Everyone
Everyone should read this book. A teacher, a parent, a ten-year old, a fifteen-year old. Remember that everyone is different and that's what makes life good and complete. We learn from all people...and people learn from watching us, too.
July 08, 2008 | |
Absolutley Excellent
It is often easy for those who write Young Adult/Juvenile fiction to make some characters overly antagonistic and others overly sympathetic. RULES, however, creates real characters who are both sympathetic and humanly annoying. I adored Catherine and her brother David. I found them both to be endearing, funny and easy to feel compassion for. Catherine's "rules" were familiar to me as a mother of a son with Asperger's Syndrome. I understood her need to keep a situation under control because it can so easily come unraveled. I loved the way the author showed how David communicates his feelings (and kids with Autism DO have feelings) through the dialogue he had gleaned from the Frog and Toad books. I truly enjoyed this book, and thank the author for doing such an excellent job in writing it. Can't recommend it enough.
July 04, 2008 | |
Amazing!
Catherine's younger brother is autistic and though she loves him, she sometimes resents how difficult her life is with him in it. She wishes, for once, that her parents would think of her first and that David would just follow the simple, everyday rules of life that are obvious to everyone else. She creates a list of rules for David (No toys in the fish tank).
When a new girl moves in next door, Catherine hopes that she and Kristi will become friends. Worried about how Kristi will react to David, Catherine tries to keep the two separate. Meanwhile, Catherine also develops a friendship with Jason that she hides from Kristi because he is confined to a wheelchair and can't speak.
Maybe a bit predictable, but in a good way, Catherine's struggle with "normal" and finding acceptance is told with warmth and compassion, without ever feeling preachy.
Newberry Honor book. Highly recommended for all.
July 02, 2008 | |
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