Beverley Brenna

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.… (meer)

I didn't know what to expect when I first got this book. In our library area it seemed like the sleeper of the Printz Honor and Award books this year. No library had it until we ordered it after the winners were announced. Taylor Jane is a young woman with asperger's who is trying very hard to become independent. She travels to France to work as a personal care assistant to her mother's boyfriend's son who has cystic fibrosis and in Taylor's eyes her mother invites herself along. Taylor is also working on a journal where she talks about her past, her feelings and sometimes her dreams.

I was very impressed by this book. Firstly even though it is the final book in a trilogy it most definitely works as a stand alone. I also have never read about someone who has asperger's before. I know several people who have asperger's and autism and I felt like this book really made me understand some of how they process their emotions and how difficult that is.

Taylor Jane's struggle with her mother to be seen as an adult and allowed to make decisions for herself is extremely relate-able to everyone. I see this as something that will really draw the reader in and then offer a perspective they have never given much thought to before unless their are people with asperger's in their life. This is well worth reading and I'm glad I got the opportunity to read it.… (meer)

I didn't know what to expect when I first got this book. In our library area it seemed like the sleeper of the Printz Honor and Award books this year. No library had it until we ordered it after the winners were announced. Taylor Jane is a young woman with asperger's who is trying very hard to become independent. She travels to France to work as a personal care assistant to her mother's boyfriend's son who has cystic fibrosis and in Taylor's eyes her mother invites herself along. Taylor is also working on a journal where she talks about her past, her feelings and sometimes her dreams.

I was very impressed by this book. Firstly even though it is the final book in a trilogy it most definitely works as a stand alone. I also have never read about someone who has asperger's before. I know several people who have asperger's and autism and I felt like this book really made me understand some of how they process their emotions and how difficult that is.

Taylor Jane's struggle with her mother to be seen as an adult and allowed to make decisions for herself is extremely relate-able to everyone. I see this as something that will really draw the reader in and then offer a perspective they have never given much thought to before unless their are people with asperger's in their life. This is well worth reading and I'm glad I got the opportunity to read it.… (meer)