Cynthia Lord’s first novel, Rules, is the winner of the 2007 Newbery Honor book award and the Schneider Family Book Award and it is not difficult to see why. Rules is a powerful novel which explores how we handle people with disabilities and how we make “rules” to manage our lives. But rules are meant to be broken and new friendships give Catherine, a young teenager helping to care for her autistic brother, fresh perspectives.
