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Biography
Julie Chibbaro is the award-winning author of three books: Into the Dangerous World (Viking, 2015), a novel about a girl artist on the NY streets in 1984, Deadly (Simon & Schuster 2011, Scholastic 2012), a medical mystery about the hunt for Typhoid Mary in 1906, and Redemption (S&S 2004) a historical novel about a girl's unintended trip to the New World in 1524. All three novels received stellar reviews. Into the Dangerous World is a Junior Library Guild Selection. Deadly won the 2011 National Jewish Book Award, and was Top 10 on the American Library Association's Amelia Bloomer Project list. It was named a Bank Street Best Book, and an Outstanding Science Trade Book by the National Science Teachers Association and is now part of many schools’ curriculum. Redemption (Simon & Schuster 2004), an epic tale of love, kidnapping, and white Indians, won the 2005 American Book Award.
Julie has appeared on author panels throughout the country. She teaches at the Gotham Writers Workshop, in Manhattan, and at Botsford Arts, in Beacon, NY. She has written for The Prague Post, The Montreal Gazette, The Poughkeepsie Journal, Hudson Valley Magazine, NY States of Mind, Books in Canada, SundanceTV, Tuttle Publishing, and many other venues. She studied writing at The New School, and with Gordon Lish. She received scholarships to study with Clark Blaise at the Prague Writers Workshop, and with Janet Fitch and Amy Tan at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. At the New York Writers Institute, she took a Master class with Marilynne Robinson and Ann Beattie. She is represented by the agent Jill Grinberg.
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 Into the Dangerous World
Publishers Weekly starred review: http://www.digitalpw.com/digitalpw/20150525?folio=61#pg95 "This striking combination of story and illustration creates a powerful portrait of a budding artist."
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
- Into the Dangerous World| publisher=Viking| date=2015 | url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Into_the_Dangerous_World.html?id=BajToQEACAAJ