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Twelve-year-old Catherine just wants a normal life. Which is near impossible when you have a brother with autism and a family that revolves around his disability. 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. 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?
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2 editions- Hardcover · English · 2007Thorndike Press · 191 pages · 9780786295593
- Hardcover · English · 2006Scholastic Press · 200 pages · 9780439443821
AutismBrothers and sistersFictionPeople with disabilitiesPhysically handicappedSiblingsJuvenile fictionNewbery Honor













