Lord, C. (2006). Rules. New York: Scholastic.
Rules, a children's novel of self-searching and discovery, involves the main character, Catherine's, struggles to figure out who she is independent of her brother David, who has autism and who she is often asked to care for as her parents work, all while she is coming of age socially as we see her meeting new people and navigating the waters of friendship. All of this progresses easily out of both her inner-conflicts and guilt as well as her actual conflicts with her parents and friends. As is often the case in both children's and adult's contemporary fiction, the main character is a female who is experiencing these conflicts with multiple male supporting characters who are also cast in atypical roles due to emotion and disabilities, like her new friend Jason.
Evaluation criteria: Theme and Gender/culture
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