Rules, by Cynthia Lord
This book was my favorite book…actually just by looking at the cover. The cover is very cute different from other selections. To make a short summary, this is a story about a twelve year girl, Catherine. She wants to live a normal life, and this was very hard because Catherine’s brother, David had autism. It was hard for him to talk and communicate with others. To live a normal life and to help David at the same time, Christine made rules for her brother such as “No toys in the fish tank” (which I think the cover of this book is trying to show).
What I get to think about while reading this book is, if I was Catherine, would I have been trying to help my brother with autism? I think I won’t, but I might have been trying to avoid him. At school, the same thing happens. There is a boy that is a little different from other classmates, and most of the classmates try to avoid him as possible, so I think that Catherine is a very nice girl.
Anyway, back to the rules, I liked the rule, “If someone says hi to you, you should say hi back” and “No toys in the fish tank” because it kind of showed about David’s autism. This book is easy to read and also enjoyable, so I would like to recommend this book to my friends!
