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Beverley Brenna

Beverley Brenna

Beverley Brenna is a Saskatoon writer, editor, artist, and professor emerita whose books for young people often foreground disability, autonomy, and voices underrepresented in children's literature. Her Wild Orchid trilogy concludes with the Printz Honor novel The White Bicycle.

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The White Bicycle

2012 · Contemporary

1 edition: Print · 2012

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The White Bicycle is the third title in the Wild Orchid trilogy following the adventures of Taylor Jane, a young woman with Asperger's Syndrome. In The White Bicycle, Taylor travels to the south of France with her mother and her friends. She is going to be working for the summer babysitting for the Phoenix family. While on this journey Taylor will embark on another quest for independence both personal and universal as she casts her mind back to her earliest memories.

Print · 2012 · English

More About Beverley Brenna

Beverley Brenna is a Saskatoon writer, editor, artist, and professor emerita whose books for young people often foreground disability, autonomy, and voices underrepresented in children's literature. Her Wild Orchid trilogy concludes with the Printz Honor novel The White Bicycle.

Brenna is a Saskatoon writer, editor, landscape artist, and professor emerita at the University of Saskatchewan.

Her fiction frequently centers disabled or otherwise underrepresented young people and questions of autonomy and belonging.

The White Bicycle concludes the Wild Orchid trilogy while functioning as a stand-alone novel.

The retained bibliography connects this profile to The White Bicycle. These title relationships remain candidate editorial evidence and do not create or alter canonical Works.

The research records Michael L. Printz Award — honor — 2013 — The White Bicycle. Each item remains tied to its retained source for editorial verification.

Coverage retained for the profile includes WOW Review discussion of The White Bicycle: The review emphasizes Taylor's movement toward independence and the novel's invitation to reconsider social norms around disability.; Interview with Beverley Brenna: Brenna discusses poetry, writing for children, mentorship, and recent books.; Printz Honor acceptance speech: Brenna's acceptance speech discusses The White Bicycle and the meaning of the Printz recognition..

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  1. Beverley Brenna — official site ↗
  2. Beverley Brenna — young-adult novels ↗
  3. Beverley Brenna — interviews ↗
  4. Beverley Brenna — readings ↗
  5. Beverley Brenna — keynotes ↗
  6. Beverley Brenna — contact ↗
  7. The White Bicycle teachers' guide ↗
  8. Beverley Brenna — Writers' Union of Canada ↗
  9. Beverley Brenna — Red Deer Press ↗
  10. Professor wins young adult fiction prize ↗
  11. USask professor's career shaped by literature ↗
  12. Beverley Brenna Printz Honor speech ↗
  13. Beverley Anne Brenna — TeachingBooks ↗
  14. Interview with Beverley Brenna ↗
  15. The White Bicycle — Open Library ↗
  16. WOW Review, Summer 2013 ↗
  17. Beverley Brenna portrait asset ↗