Julie Chibbaro
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Julie Chibbaro New York City, New York |
| Occupation | Author |
| Years active | 2004–present |
Julie Chibbaro is the author of Deadly (Simon & Schuster 2011), a medical mystery about the hunt for Typhoid Mary. Deadly won the 2011 National Jewish Book Award, and was Top 10 on the American Library Association's Amelia Bloomer Project list. Deadly was named Outstanding Science Trade Book by the National Science Teachers Association for 2012. The novel was reviewed in The New York Times, Kirkus Reviews, and School Library Journal.
Julie Chibbaro's first book, Redemption (Simon & Schuster 2004) won the 2005 American Book Award. In 2013, her new novel, Aurora Borealis & Amazing, will be published by Penguin (Dial BFYR), with drawings by Jean-Marc Superville Sovak.
Julie Chibbaro participated in the University of Pennsylvania's MAGPI program, teaching young people about writing and history. She has appeared on author panels throughout the country, and was a Featured Speaker at the 2012 USA Science & Engineering Festival Book Fair. Julie studied writing at The New School, and with Gordon Lish. She studied with Clark Blaise at the Prague Writers Workshop, and with Janet Fitch, Lynn Freed and Mark Childress at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. At the New York Writers Institute, she took a Master class with Marilynne Robinson and Ann Beattie.
Awards
- 2011 National Jewish Book Award for "Deadly"
- 2011 Top 10 ALA's Amelia Bloomer List
- 2012 Outstanding Science Trade Book for "Deadly" by National Science Teachers Association
- 2005 American Book Award for Redemption
′==Select Reviews of "Deadly"==
"Paced like a medical thriller, “Deadly” is the rare Y.A. novel in which a girl’s intellectual interests trump adolescent romance. A 16-year-old Jewish tenement dweller in 1906 New York pines away days at a finishing school on scholarship and nights helping midwife young mothers. When she quits school to assist the Department of Health and Sanitation in its pursuit of “Typhoid Mary,” she is awakened to nascent opportunities for women in science." –for the subject, moral, and historical events, California standard readers association requires all 7th grade science classes in California to read it according to it standards reaching 7th grade standards and require class association with effort.
"A deeply personal coming-of-age story set in an era of tumultuous social change, this is top-notch historical fiction that highlights the struggle between rational science and popular opinion as shaped by a sensational, reactionary press."
"Rich period details about the study of medicine and the role of women in society combine with Prudence’s girlish crush on her chief and her earnest desire to “do something astonishing with my life” to make this a title that will appeal to reluctant readers and historical fiction fans alike."
Works
- Redemption. Simon & Schuster/Atheneum. 2004. ISBN 978-0-689-85736-2.
- Deadly. Simon & Schuster/Atheneum. 2011. ISBN 0-689-85738-1.
- The Return of the Kral Majales. Literaria Pragensoa Books. 2010. ISBN 978-80-7308-302-1.