THE RULES OF SURVIVAL BY NANCY WERLIN

This book is fiction. I chose to read THE RULES OF SURVIVAL because its about a boy, Matthew, and his two sisters, Callie and Emmy, who's mother, Nikki is not only physically but mentally abusive. I also chose to read this book because these kind of things happen to children in real life, its a sad thing but true. Nikki does not know how to take care of her children and she's not around a lot. She always has a different guy around every couple of weeks and the the worst thing is that when she doesn't like something she almost kills one of her children, Nikki is rarely nice or even pleasant to be around. She's conceited and the kind of person that makes life hard to live in, Nikki is someone who you would think "Why does she even have kids if she's not going to be a mother?". This book is one that will make you think how good your parents are to you. How much worse things could be. The significance of this books title "THE RULES OF SURVIVAL" is probably the perfect title because of what these children had to go through,They had to learn how to survive on there own.

3QUESTIONS I HAVE FOR NANCY WERLIN:

1) Why did Matthew and Callie leave Emmy by herself even though Nikki was gone?

• Why did Matthew and Callie leave Emmy when they knew that if Nikki came home and she found out that they weren't there, she would do something terrible to Emmy. It doesn't make sense that they would take that chance or risk.

2)In the beginning of the book you say "This book is for all the survivors. Always remember: The survivor gets to tell the story." who are the survivors? someone you know?

• I ask this question because i was wondering who inspired this story that she tells.

3)What made you think of such a deep story?

• Was it because you experienced something like this or witnessed it?

Cheyenne Vizzi