Great book for families with autistic kids

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	• Rules (Newbery Honor Book) Cynthia Lord Scholastic Press, 2006 - 208 pages average customer review:based on 61 reviews view larger image
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Great book for families with autistic kids

Very applicable to what a family experiences when autism in a part of your life. I'm hoping my daughter will better understand her autistic sister better after reading this book with me.

Rules

Rules is an excellent book. Rule is about a twelve year old girl named Cathrine who has a brother named David who has autism. Cathrine tries to teach him rules like " No toys in the fish tank and "Keep your pants on in public." I think Rules is a wounderful book to read beacuse it's about Cathrine trying to make friends and a girl moves in next door and tries to make friends. If you want to know if they become friends, read Rules. I would recommend this book to people who like books with good narration.

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KCS- Rules Review

Catherine is a twelve year old living with a brother who has autism. All she wants is to live a normal life, one where she is not constantly watching her brother, David.

It is summer vacation and Catherine is eagerly waiting for her "potential best friend" to move in next door. In the mean time, she follows her mom and David to his occupational therapy each week. There, she meets an unusual boy named Jason. Jason can't move or talk, so he uses communication cards. Catherine uses her gift of drawing make cards for Jason, and they become closer friends each week. She always thought it was a pain to have a sibling with autism, but realizes how tough it actually is to live with a disability.

I really enjoyed this book and how it shows how it is to take care of someone with a disability. The author shows the reality of disabilities, from the person who has it, and their family. I think this book is written in a Christian perspective because the book has good themes through out it. One of the themes in this book is to not be ashamed of a friend because you are afraid of what others reactions might be.

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The golden "Rules"

Twelve-year-old Catherine's autistic younger brother David is a constant source of embarrassment for her, from his hand flapping and public tantrums to socially inappropriate behaviors such as dropping his pants in public. Catherine is constantly updating her list of rules for David in order to spare him (and herself) embarrassment at the hands of others. Many of these rules make perfect sense to the non-autistic: knock before entering the bathroom, no toys in the fish tank, chew with your mouth closed.

Catherine's best friend is away for the summer, and she's overjoyed when a new girl her age moves in next door, but she's afraid that David will mess everything up. She also meets Jason, a nonverbal wheelchair user who attends the same therapy clinic as David, and the two strike up a deep friendship, with the artistic Catherine going as far as to create new picture cards for Jason's communication book. Jason teaches her important lessons about acceptance and true friendship.

Lord has created a particularly realistic novel that looks at handicaps and public perception, siblings, and the perils of preteen social angst in a down-to-earth voice. Catherine's family has its flaws as well as its warm moments, and David is a funny, adoring younger brother even though many of his actions are mysterious and frustrating to Catherine. Catherine's budding friendship with Jason was also tenderly drawn, and I hope that Catherine and the other characters will reappear in later novels.

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Fabulous

I thought this book was fabulous. It was great to read a book about a child with autism that didn't focus only on the child's disability but on who they are as people. Great complexity of emotions and very true to life!

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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?

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