Rules by Cynthia Lord was a Newbery Honor Medal winner as well as a Scheider Family Book Award winner. This amazing story tells of a young girl, Catherine, trying to deal with her brother’s autism. Throughout the book she learns that sometimes you can’t protect people, it is ok to be willing to be different, and that the best things in life are making friends and taking a leap to do something new. I started this book late one night and couldn’t put it down. As we help our students adjust and be aware of the autistic students in our building, I’m sure my teachers will be able to use this novel as a way to talk with kids about autism.