Rules by Cynthia Lord.
A very common story about a girl who's younger brother has a disability and she feels like she gets thrown to the side...
You have heard this story before right...WRONG! I started reading the book and I had to keep putting it down because it made me so frustrated. This girl I thought was too shy. She was very selfish and I could not even get into the book let alone think about writing a review about it.
However, somewhere in the story I was pulled in.
Yes the girl is embarrassed by her disabled brother as they are in most the stories.
Yes. She is overly shy around boys even though I am sure she is very pleasing to the eyes
But this girl has rules in which to keep her brother in check.. SHE HAS RULES.
These rules tell him how to behave in public and how to respond to people. Some of the rules are made to make his life better.... however others.. are just to keep him from embarrassing her.
SELFISH.
She finally meets a friend that she thinks she will like and the only thing she worries about is is her brother gonna embarrass her... [[Catherine]]Is only twelve years old. Having a "normal life" is pretty important to her and just the crazy things she goes through while attempting to create this normal life is worth the 200 pages.
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