Showing posts with label house rules. Show all posts
Showing posts with label house rules. Show all posts

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Book Club Spotlight -- House Rules by Jodi Picoult

This is one of the books that the library book club will be reading over the next six months. Here is the Barnes and Noble description:

Jacob Hunt is a teen with Asperger's Syndrome. He is hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself well to others, though he is brillant in many ways. But he has a special focus on one subject -- forensic analysis. A police scanner in his room clues him in to crime scenes, and he is always showing up and telling the cops what to do. And he's usually right. But when Jacob's small town is rocked by a terrible murder, law enforcement comes to him. Jacob's behaviors are hallmark Asperger's, but they look a lot like guilt to the local police. Suddenly, the Hunt family, who only want to fit in, are directly in the spotlight.

This sounds like a tough subject. Have you read this? If so, what did you think?