The next week at OT, Jason wants Catherine to push Jason around in his wheelchair as fast as she can go, because he wants to know how it feels like to run, and she does. When they get home, Kristi is in the front yard with Ryan, and Ryan teases David with an empty gum wrapper. While they go home, Catherine gets card stock and a paper cutter to make Jason more words. The next time at OT, she brings the cards and a surprise for Jason, which is one of her own guinea pigs.

Catherine's mom brings back a present for Catherine from Jason, which is carrots for her guinea pigs. They talk for a very long time and play basketball, which means that Catherine has to miss OT.

While making the cards, Kristi is invited to her house by Catherine's mom, and they finally meet for the first time. They talk, and Catherine agrees to make a lot more cards for him. Catherine goes to OT again, and she gives Jason her new cards. However, Kristi is at her dad's house, and they fail to meet again. One day, Catherine's mom is making hamburger patties, as she intends to invite Kristi and her family over for a picnic. While making the cards, David needs her to get a toy out of the fish tank, and she sees Kristi talking to Ryan, a very rude boy that bullies. The next time Catherine goes to OT, she agrees to help Jason by making more of his speech cards. Kristi's first words to Catherine are 'Is he okay?' Later, when she wants to meet them for real, they are busy unpacking, or not in the house. When she finally sees Kristi for the first time, David is screaming. However, when she gives him the picture, they become friends. He tells his mother, and she yells at Catherine. When they get to OT, she starts to sketch Jason, a boy who is unable to talk. She finally drags David to the car and they go to OT. She wants to know when her new next-door neighbor, also a 12-year-old girl, will move in. Catherine decides to take a detour and talk to the moving men beside her house. David has autism, and he has to go to occupational therapy, or OT. Summary Ĭatherine, a 12-year-old girl, is trying to drag her brother, David, to the car. In 2009 it also won the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award. It is a Sunshine State Young Readers book for 2008–2009 and won A 2007 Schneider Family Book Award. in 2006, it was a Newbery Honor book in 2007. Rules is the debut novel by author Cynthia Lord.

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