The Unbreakable Rules of Ella Marks

By Nathan Wu

Every kid has rules. Ella Marks has forty-seven of them.

Rule #7: Never sit next to someone unpredictable. Rule #22: Never let anyone see you take your medication. Rule #3: Always have an exit strategy. Ella has spent years building a careful, color-coded system for navigating life with epilepsy-a system that keeps her safe, invisible, and completely in control. The only problem? Her rules are making her world smaller every day.

Then Nadia Amari crashes into Ella's perfectly organized existence wearing mismatched socks and carrying a sketchbook full of wild ideas. Nadia doesn't follow rules. She breaks them, rewrites them, and doesn't even apologize. Worse, she wants to be Ella's friend-the real kind, not the kind where you sit together at lunch and never talk about anything that matters.

As Ella and Nadia collaborate on a mural about "hidden things that deserve to be seen," Ella faces the question she's been avoiding since her diagnosis: What happens when the worst-case scenario actually arrives-and it doesn't look anything like she imagined?

Told with humor, warmth, and unflinching honesty, The Unbreakable Rules of Ella Marks is a story about a girl who happens to have epilepsy discovering that the bravest thing she can do is let people in. Through Ella's witty, unforgettable voice, readers will find a friend who understands what it feels like to carry a secret, fear the unpredictable, and wonder whether the real danger is the thing you can't control-or the walls you build to protect yourself from it.

For every kid who has ever made a rule to feel safe, and every kid brave enough to break one.

Ages 8-12 Illustrated

The Unbreakable Rules of Ella Marks is the book every kid with epilepsy has been waiting for-a funny, honest, heart-full story about finding the courage to let people see who you really are

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GSW6QMQ9
• ISBN13: 9798252390291
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"