![]() ![]() ![]() Sorely Missing Her Best Friend, Who Is Away For The Summer, And Realizing That The Girl Who Has Just Moved In Next Door Is Not A Kindred Spirit, Catherine Devises Some Of Her Own Self-protective Rules (when You Want To Get Out Of Answering Something, Distract The Questioner With Another Question). Taking Solace In Art, The Girl Fills The Back Of Her Sketchbook With Rules She Has Established For David, So If My Someday-he'll-wake-up-a-regular-brother Wish Doesn't Ever Come True, At Least He'll Know How The World Works, And I Won't Have To Keep Explaining Things. Her Parents Place 12-year-old Catherine In Charge Of Her Younger Autistic Brother More Often Than She Would Like. ![]() 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?publishers Weeklythe Appealing, Credible Narrator At The Heart Of Lord's Debut Novel Will Draw In Readers, As She Struggles To Find Order And Balance In Her Life. 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. Which Is Near Impossible When You Have A Brother With Autism And A Family That Revolves Around His Disability. Twelve-year-old Catherine Just Wants A Normal Life. ![]()
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