Books on Autism
Beverley 'Bev' Brenna is an elementary school teacher in rural and urban settings, who has worked as a co-ordinator of gifted programs, and been a reading specialist and special education teacher as well as a special education consultant.
Bev has written a trilogy following the adventures of Taylor Jane Simon, an eighteen-year-old girl with Asperger's Syndrome who has a refreshingly different view of the people she encounters and the life she wants to have.
Young adult readers will identify with Taylor's struggle for independence and self-control, and empathize as she outlines the ways-both positive and negative-- that her Asperger's Syndrome affects her daily life. Taylor explores a fear of solitary existence while reaching out to a world at times perplexing. Most important, Taylor wants to be seen as an individual, not as a stereotypical "person with special needs, " or a rare wild flower-images that haunt her from the past.
All three books have won awards on their own merit, including The White Bicycle being a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award.
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Wild Orchid
Author Beverley Brenna
$17.95 ISBN: 9780889953307 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Red Deer Press Inc Publication Date: 2005-09-30 -
Waiting For No One
Author Beverley Brenna
$12.95 ISBN: 9780889954373 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Red Deer Press Inc Publication Date: 2010-10-20 -
The White Bicycle
Author Beverley Brenna
$12.95 ISBN: 9780889954830 Binding: Trade Paper Publisher: Red Deer Press Inc Publication Date: 2012-09-27