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Wild Orchid

di Beverley Brenna

Serie: Wild Orchid (1)

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Young Adult Fiction. HTML: Taylor Jane Simon is 18 years old and spending the summer with her mother in Prince Albert National Park. The holiday has been planned so Taylor's mother can spend time with her latest boyfriend, Danny, and work in the pizza restaurant near the park that Danny runs. Taylor would just as soon stay at home in Saskatoon, but because she suffers from an autistic condition called Asperger's Syndrome, she can't stay on her own. Taylor's mother encourages her daughter to explore the park's possibilities on her own. For Taylor, whose life experience has been seriously limited, this means facing the test of meeting new people who work in the park's nature center�??and facing it alone. Summer also holds out the possibility of finding her own boyfriend, though Taylor isn't quite sure what that may involve. What she discovers will change her life forever. Written as an epistolary novel, Wild Orchid is frank but optimistic, literal yet innocent. A courageous wit attends Taylor's gradual emergence as her own person, and the reader will find the exploration of Taylor's mind a revealing and heartwarming encounter.… (altro)

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This book was a very welcome change from my traditional fare. Taylor Simon has Asperger's syndrome, her case is relatively mild. She doesn't like change, at all. She does like orchids, they are uncommon like she is. She does like friends; it is difficult making them though.

This book is a beautiful coming of age story in which a girl learns that she doesn't need a boyfriend to live her life. She just needs to accept that certain changes are unavoidable. The voice of this novella makes it very difficult to read, but, absolutely worth every page of struggle. (

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thebacklistbook | Mar 20, 2018 |

Enchanting. A bit too short, as some sub-plots were over-simplified and could have benefited from expansion. But it's not just another 'autism disorder' novel. For one, the girl with Asperger's is, indeed, female. And for another, she's 18, out of school, and realizing that her support system is now just her mom, and she has to find a way to grow up and learn how to make it on her own. And by the end of the summer, she's grown a lot, and things look good for both of them. Yay! (

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Cheryl_in_CC_NV | Jun 6, 2016 |

I enjoyed Wild Orchid, by Beverly Brenna because it really stayed in the true voice of Taylor Simon, who is an eighteen year old girl living in Alberta, Canada with Asperger’s Syndrome. There were so many qualitative traits that spoke true of her experience with this condition; yet, the story is written as a narrative diary in Taylor’s own extremely likeable and real voice. It's a great book because so few are written about a girl's perspective/experience with Asperger's. (

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nieva21 | May 17, 2010 |

Reviewed by Kristin Butcher (CM Magazine, January 20, 2006, Vol. 12, No. 10) 'Until I read this novel I knew autism as an outsider looking in. Wild Orchid has allowed me to see it from the inside out.'
http://umanitoba.ca/outreach/cm/vol12/no10/wildorchid.html

Reviewed by Lisa Doucet (Canadian Children’s Book News, Winter 2006, Vol. 29, No.1)

Reviewed by Joan Marshall (Resource Links, October 2006 (Vol. 12, No. 1)

elliottruth | Oct 22, 2009 |

Wonderful story told through the eyes of an 18yo young woman who has Asperger's Syndrome. Would suggest all friends and family of someone who has Asperger's read this book. People w/ Apserger's may enjoy it also. (

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ShellieM | May 16, 2007 |

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Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award (Lista breve – 2006)

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Young Adult Fiction. HTML:

Taylor Jane Simon is 18 years old and spending the summer with her mother in Prince Albert National Park. The holiday has been planned so Taylor's mother can spend time with her latest boyfriend, Danny, and work in the pizza restaurant near the park that Danny runs. Taylor would just as soon stay at home in Saskatoon, but because she suffers from an autistic condition called Asperger's Syndrome, she can't stay on her own. Taylor's mother encourages her daughter to explore the park's possibilities on her own. For Taylor, whose life experience has been seriously limited, this means facing the test of meeting new people who work in the park's nature center�??and facing it alone. Summer also holds out the possibility of finding her own boyfriend, though Taylor isn't quite sure what that may involve. What she discovers will change her life forever.

Written as an epistolary novel, Wild Orchid is frank but optimistic, literal yet innocent. A courageous wit attends Taylor's gradual emergence as her own person, and the reader will find the exploration of Taylor's mind a revealing and heartwarming encounter.

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