Julie Berry (author)
Julie Berry 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. She received a B.S. in communications at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York in 1995 and later earned an M.F.A. from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 2008. Berry met her husband at RPI. They have four sons together. The family lived for many years in Maynard, Massachusetts, west of Boston, before moving to Pasadena, California. During the early years of her writing career Berry also worked as marketing director with the family business, a data collection software company. While living in Maynard, Berry was a columnist for the MetroWest Daily News.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.
- 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.
- 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.
Books
- The Amaranth Enchantment
- Secondhand Charm
- Splurch Academy for Disruptive Boys: The Rat Brain Fiasco with Sally Gardner
- Splurch Academy for Disruptive Boys: Curse of the Bizarro Beetle with Sally Gardner
- Splurch Academy for Disruptive Boys: The Colossal Fossil Freakout with Sally Gardner
- Splurch Academy for Disruptive Boys: The Trouble with Squids with Sally Gardner
- All the Truth That’s In Me Viking/Penguin Group, New York, NY.
- The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place Roaring Brook Press, New York, NY.
- The Passion of Dolssa Penguin Books, New York, NY.
- The Emperor’s Ostrich Roaring Brook Press, New York, NY.
- Wishes and Wellingtons Audible Originals, LLC, an AMAZON company.
- Lovely War Viking Press, New York, NY.
