Cynthia Lord

Rules is the debut novel by author Cynthia Lord. Released by Scholastic, Inc. in 2006, it was a Newbery Honor book in 2007. It is a Sunshine State Young Readers book for 2008–2009 and won the Schneider Family Book Award. In 2009 it also won the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award.

Touch Blue and your wish will come true."Why take chances?" says eleven-year-old Tess Brooks. "Especially when it's so easy to let the universe know what you want by touching blue or turning around three times or crossing your fingers."But Tess is coming to know that it's not always that simple.The state of Maine …