Rules+Assignment

Rules, Cynthia Lord Review by Rachel E  The book rules is all about twelve year old Catherine dealing with her younger brother, David. David isn’t like younger brothers because he has autism. Autism makes it harder for David to control himself. When David goes to see his therapist Catharine comes along hoping that her mother will take her down to the pond. While there are sitting in the waiting room she sees a boy in a wheelchair and his mother enter. As Catharine keeps coming with David to go to his appointments her bond with Jason, the kid in the wheelchair becomes stronger. Catharine finds out that Jason sees speech therapist because he can not speak at all, the only way he can get his words out are by pointing to cards that have words on them. All the while she is still trying to keep her embarrassing brother out of trouble. To get better control of him she makes up rules for him because he loves to hear rules. Some of these rules include no toys in the fish tank, if you can only choose one pick carefully and rules like that. Then one amazing day Jason has a breakthrough, but the only way to find out is to read the book Rules by Cynthia Lord. I thought the book Rules was amazing, and I would defiantly recommend it. It is told from the view of a twelve year old girl so it was easy to relate to. It also defiantly opened up my eyes to see that disabled people should never be treated differently. Once I picked up this book I never put it down. I was a quick easy read but filled with a good lesson about people that are different then us. I thought Cynthia did a great job writing it and I like the idea of it too. Some parts were a little tricky to understand but once u did understand it I was a very good book. I would defiantly consider reading another book by her.