Rules

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Lord, C. (2006). Rules. NY: Scholastic Press.

Catherine is a young twelve year old girl, who lives with her autistic younger brother. She find it very hard to be a normal girl and do normal things, when she has to always take care of her brother. To make her life a little easier, she comes up with rules that she teaches to her brother, so she does not get embarrassed.  Especially when she find out that a new family is moving in next door and a young girl her same age will be living there. She is very excited, but afraid that she will not be accepted because of her brother. Everything changes when she decides to talk to a boy named Jason at the Occupational Therapy  office that they take her brother. Her whole perspective of how people should be treated changes when she befriends Jason. At the end, she welcomes her brother and Jason's disability and doesn't care about what other people think.

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