RULES By Cynthia Lord
1. IWB is it said that “Sometimes people laugh when they like you. But sometimes they laugh to hurt you”?
2. IWB does a boy read the parental advisories and ratings on the videos at the video store?
3. IWB are surefire answers of “yes” and “no” preferred over “maybe,” it depends, and “I don’t know.”
4. IWB is a character “tingly with hope” about a new neighbor?
5. IWB does “The wrinkled-forehead look, mean, “What’s wrong with this kid?”
6. IWB is a pill to cure autism wished for?
7. IWB does a sister keep a list in the back of her sketch pad that would help her brother understand how the world works?
8. IWB is it true that “sometimes people don’t answer because they didn’t hear you. Other times it’s because they don’t want to hear.”?
9. IWB does a character go to the clinic for occupational therapy?
10. IWB does the word “maybe” make a character scream?
11. IWB can a character guess the tide just by closing her eyes and breathing the air through the open car windows because low tide smell mud-black and tangy, but high tide smells clean and salty?
12. IWB does a character look forward to going to clinic each week because she gets her mom completely to herself?
13. IWB is a store “like an attic, full of stuff someone’s grandparents once owned but had no more use for. Things not quite good enough to keep, but not quite bad enough to throw away.”?
14. IWB is it said that “looking closer can make something more beautiful”?
15. IWB does drawing help to find the “beautiful parts” of things?
16. IWB does a character draw pictures of people in the waiting room?
17. IWB is a character angry when he can’t stop and get a guitar at a yard sale?
18. IWB does a character hear everything extra loud?
19. IWB does a character refuse to dance unless she’s “alone in her room or its pitch-black dark”?
20. IWB is the father a pharmacist and the mother a tax-preparer?
21. IWB does a character enjoy counting cars?
22. IWB does a character shout, “The whole world is covered with buttons, and not one of them is mine!”?
23. IWB does a character quote Frog and Toad Are Friends to calm another character?
24. IWB does a boy make loud and creepy noises?
25. IWB does a character wonder how it would feel “to have to wait for someone to make a word before she could use it”?
26. IWB does a character have a communication book?
27. IWB does a character offer to make word cards for a boy?
28. IWB does a boy make a speech therapist sound like a superhero? “Speech Woman! Avenger of Adverbs! Protector of Pronouns! Champion of Chitchat!”
29. IWB does a character keep her calendar clipped together with a clothespin so she won’t cheat and peek ahead to the next month?
30. IWB is a character’s dream “to be an artist and have people e gasp when they see her artwork”?
31. IWB does a character have the longest, hardest-to-spell password she could think of- anthropological?
32. IWB does a character keep an old skeleton key because she likes how it feels in her hand?
33. Are 2 Guinea pigs named Nutmeg and Cinnamon?
34. IWB does a character write “stinks a big one!!!” on a card?
35. IWB does a drawing of a Guinea pig look like a furry-baked potato?
36. IWB is a Barbie doll found in a fish tank?
37. IWB does a character explain “Pantless brothers are not my problem.”?
38. IWB does a girl wish, “Just this once, let it be easy.”?
39. IWB are tourists a good-luck sign that summer’s here?
40. IWB is a half of a maggot on a spoon used to illustrate the word “gross”?
41. IWB does a boy’s laugh sound like a sharp bark like a Canada goose?
42. IWB did 2 Guinea pigs eat off half the cover of a library book?
43. IWB is it true that “Some people think they know who you are, when really they don’t.”?
44. IWB is the phrase “why not” pushier- like “why” with a fist on its hip?
45. IWB does a character insist on bringing a bright red umbrella to school even when it’s only cloudy?
46. IWB is “the best part of being at a friend’s house is I can just be me and put the sister part of me down”?
47. IWB does on person wish that “everyone had the same chances” and another person wish for grape soda?
48. IWB is Arnold Lobel quoted?
49. IWB is there a dance at the community center?
50. IWB do people in the clinic, on the street, and in the restaurants stop to stare at a girl pushing a wheelchair as she runs?
51. IWB are tomatoes described as red-orange with orange-yellow streaks, and the smallest hint of purple in the creases?
52. IWB are tomato seeds started in pots in the kitchen windowsill while snow is still deep on the ground?
53. IWB does a character “love swimming in water over her head, cold emptiness under her feet, those sudden warm spots or icy underwater springs”?
54. IWB does a character look at the ocean and say, “I think after “awesome” you’re done with words?
55. IWB does a boy dance “from the heart. From the inside out.”?
56. IWB is an old guitar wrapped in 2 white garbage bags with a red bow tied around it?
57. IWB is an old guitar given as a birthday gift?
58. IWB does it feel sneaky and wrong to step into a boy’s bedroom even though there’s a houseful of people?
59. IWB does and elderly man complain at a birthday party about his problem with chipmunks in the cellar?
60. IWB does a father tell his daughter “You matter.”?
61. IWB are a character’s parents separated, but not divorced?
62. IWB are carrots tossed into a cage causing a “shaving-flying scuffle to break out, … settling into happy chortling and chewing sounds”?
63. IWB is pooping on a van a gross hello?
64. IWB does a character listen to Avril Lavigne on a CD player?
65. IWB does a character tap “Speech. Woman. Yell. All the time. I. Can’t. Talk. But. I. Hear. Fine.”?
66. IWB does a character scream, “Get out of my yard and take your stupid gum with you!”?
67. IWB does a mom read aloud Harry Potter in a waiting room?
68. IWB does the word Excuse look rushed and cheap?
69. IWB doe you “have to bring back a handful of that murky stuff from the bottom to prove you made it to the bottom”?
70. IWB does a character describe himself as Incomplete?
71. IWB is a wheelchair pushed through a parking lot for fun?