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Ranvan the Defender
Rhan Van uses his success at video games under the name "RanVan" to see himself as a modern knight and to cope with life with his grandmother and as an outsider at his Vancouver high school, with his anger, and with the enigmatic Thalie Meng, a girl he meets when she is thrown out of a car.
170 pages, Hardcover
First published December 12, 1991
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About the author
Diana Wieler
11 books4 followersDiana Wieler was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1961. She moved to Calgary as a teenager and, after high school, took the Television, Stage, and Radio Arts Program at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. Working in radio in Calgary, and then for a newspaper in Saskatoon, proved to be valuable training for a writing career, which she now pursues full time.
Diana's first published short stories: A Dog On His Own, (Prairie Publishing Company), To the Mountains by Morning, was published in a third grade reader (Nelson Canada) and was the winner of the CBC Literary Competition in 1984; The Boy Who Walked Backwards (Coteau Books) was published in the Prairie Jungle Anthology and won the Vickey Metcalf Award in 1985; The Finder, (Houghton Mifflin) and The Scream were both published in The Canadian Children's Annual.
Diana's most recent works include Last Chance Summer (Western Producer, Parie Books), a winner of the Ebel Memorial Reward; Bad Boy is the winner of the Governor General's Literary Reward for Children's Literature in 1989 and the Ruth Schwartz Foundation Reward for Excellence, the Canadian Library Association for Young Adult Book of the Year in 1990 and also optioned for Canadian Film Rights; Ran Van the Defender, which won the Mr. Christie's Book Award; and Ran Van: A Worthy Opponent, which were published by Groundwood Books.
She has also ventured into screenwriting and is working on the script of Ran Van: the Defender for O'Meara Productions Ltd. A picture book edition of her story To the Mountains by Morning was published by Groundwood books in October 1995.
Diana Wieler is currently living in Winnipeg, Canada, with her husband and her son, Ben.
Diana's first published short stories: A Dog On His Own, (Prairie Publishing Company), To the Mountains by Morning, was published in a third grade reader (Nelson Canada) and was the winner of the CBC Literary Competition in 1984; The Boy Who Walked Backwards (Coteau Books) was published in the Prairie Jungle Anthology and won the Vickey Metcalf Award in 1985; The Finder, (Houghton Mifflin) and The Scream were both published in The Canadian Children's Annual.
Diana's most recent works include Last Chance Summer (Western Producer, Parie Books), a winner of the Ebel Memorial Reward; Bad Boy is the winner of the Governor General's Literary Reward for Children's Literature in 1989 and the Ruth Schwartz Foundation Reward for Excellence, the Canadian Library Association for Young Adult Book of the Year in 1990 and also optioned for Canadian Film Rights; Ran Van the Defender, which won the Mr. Christie's Book Award; and Ran Van: A Worthy Opponent, which were published by Groundwood Books.
She has also ventured into screenwriting and is working on the script of Ran Van: the Defender for O'Meara Productions Ltd. A picture book edition of her story To the Mountains by Morning was published by Groundwood books in October 1995.
Diana Wieler is currently living in Winnipeg, Canada, with her husband and her son, Ben.
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March 5, 2018
For my book review I’m going to talk about the defenders. The defenders is a book by Diana Wieler, the book talks about Rhan Van a high school kid that plays a video games. His username on the video games is ranvan, I don’t know why he uses that user name he could of use another username, like gt68, or Rhanyouover68.
• He uses his video games skill to cope with his life with his grandmother, and friends at his school. Now that I remember there a meaning to his username, he calls himself that because he sees himself as a “modern night”.
• The book doesn’t talked what kind of video games he play, by my point of view I think he plays a game about knights protecting the kingdom. There are 2 kids that Rhan don’t like because they got thrown out a car.
• This book was interesting, but not that much you know like it needed a little more flavored. I think they should’ve talk more about the games he played and his friends because the book doesn't talked about them
• He uses his video games skill to cope with his life with his grandmother, and friends at his school. Now that I remember there a meaning to his username, he calls himself that because he sees himself as a “modern night”.
• The book doesn’t talked what kind of video games he play, by my point of view I think he plays a game about knights protecting the kingdom. There are 2 kids that Rhan don’t like because they got thrown out a car.
• This book was interesting, but not that much you know like it needed a little more flavored. I think they should’ve talk more about the games he played and his friends because the book doesn't talked about them
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