RULES to Live By

I heard Cynthia Lord speak last year at NESCBWI and first heard about her book, RULES. The cover was bright and intriguing, the subject matter – autism – timely and trendy, and as an author and a speaker, she was touchingly human and forthcoming. I knew I had to read this book just as much as I felt confronted by it. Call it my own bias, but I shy away from "issue" books...especially those which I fear can strike a chord in me for a long, long time. But just as I'd heard Katherine Paterson sp...