Rules

By Cynthia Lord

Subjects: Physically handicapped, Siblings, People with disabilities, award:Newbery_award, Siblings, fiction, lexile:670, lexile_range:601-700, Large type books, Brothers and sisters, fiction, grade:min:4, age:min:9, Autism, fiction, Autism, Fiction, Children's fiction, age:max:12, grade:max:7, Newbery Honor, People with disabilities, fiction, Brothers and sisters, Juvenile fiction

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?