Julie Berry (author)
Julie Berry (born September 3, 1974)[1][2] is an author of children's and young adults books and winner of several national book awards.
Biography[]
Julie Gardner Berry grew up on a farm in rural Medina, New York as the youngest of seven children in a Mormon family.[3][4] She received a B.S. in communications at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York in 1995 and later earned an M.F.A. from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2008.[5][6] Berry met her husband, actor Phil Berry at RPI. They married in 1995. They have four sons together.[5] The family lived for many years in Maynard, Massachusetts, west of Boston, before moving to Temple City, California.[7][8] During the early years of her writing career Berry also worked as marketing director with the family business, a data collection software company.[6] While living in Maynard, Berry was a columnist for the MetroWest Daily News.[6]
Awards[]
- All the Truth That's in Me, 2013 Horn Book Fanfare title, a School Library Journal Best of 2013 book, and a Kirkus Best Teen Read for 2013, a Junior Library Guild Selection, nominated for a Carnegie Medal and a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults award.[5]
- The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place, won an Odyssey Honor from the American Library Association, and was named a Best Children’s Book of 2014 by the Wall Street Journal, and was named to the Dorothy Canfield Fisher list.[5]
- The Passion of Dolssa, won a 2017 Printz Honor from the American Library Association, was a New York Times Notable title, was nominated for the Los Angeles Book Prize and earned a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Top Ten award.[5]
Books[]
- The Amaranth Enchantment (2009)
- Secondhand Charm (2010)
- Splurch Academy for Disruptive Boys: The Rat Brain Fiasco (2010) with Sally Gardner
- Splurch Academy for Disruptive Boys: Curse of the Bizarro Beetle (2010) with Sally Gardner
- Splurch Academy for Disruptive Boys: The Colossal Fossil Freakout (2011) with Sally Gardner
- Splurch Academy for Disruptive Boys: The Trouble with Squids (2011) with Sally Gardner
- All the Truth That’s In Me (2013) Viking/Penguin Group, New York, NY. ISBN 978-0142427309
- The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place (2014) Roaring Brook Press, New York, NY. ISBN 978-1596439566
- The Passion of Dolssa (2017) Penguin Books, New York, NY. ISBN 978-0451469922
- The Emperor’s Ostrich (2017) Roaring Brook Press, New York, NY. ISBN 978-1596439580
- Wishes and Wellingtons (2018) Audible Originals, LLC, an AMAZON company. (audiobook)
- Lovely War (2019) Viking Press, New York, NY. ISBN 978-0451469939
References[]
- ^ http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?126269
- ^ "Julie Berry," OCLC World Cat Fiction Finder
- ^ Faith and good works: Mormon writers find their niche in wholesome young adult genre Michael Paulson, The Boston Globe (2009)
- ^ Julie Berry Mormon Artist (2014)
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Julie Berry Books
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Julie Berry, A Young Mother of Boys Finds Happiness Writing For Teen Girls Meridian Magazine (2009)
- ^ Author Julie Berry, formerly of Maynard, to visit Fowler School The Beacon-Villager, October 9, 2017
- ^ Swan, Jennifer Hubert (November 8, 2013). "Without a Voice". New York Times. New york. p. BR41.
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