Julie Halpern is an American author of popular young adult novels. She is married to the children's book author and illustrator Matthew Cordell, with whom she created the picture book Toby and the Snowflakes.About Me, Julie Halpern’s website.Bio, Matthew Cordell’s website.
Halpern's teen novels focus on the challenges facing teens who are outsiders."Don't Stop Now", Publishers Weekly, 05/02/2011. Her debut novel Get Well Soon tells the story of a teenage girl in a mental institution, where she goes after suffering from depression."Get Well Soon", Kirkus Reviews, Oct. 1st, 2007. Her second novel, Into the Wild Nerd Yonder, is about a girl who struggles with high school social labels when she meets a new group of friends who play Dungeons & Dragons."Into the Wild Nerd Yonder", Publishers Weekly, 10/19/2009.
Awards and honors In 2007, Kirkus Reviews named Get Well Soon one of the best young adult novels of the year."Best Young Adult Books of 2007", Karen Breen, Kirkus Reviews, 8.
In 2012, Have a Nice Day was named one of the best young adult novels of the year by Kirkus Reviews and Bank Street College of Education. +Awards for Halpern's writingYearTitleAwardResultRef.2012Into the Wild Nerd YonderPopular Paperbacks for Young AdultsSelection2013Have a Nice DayALA Best Fiction for Young AdultsSelection
Publications Toby and the Snowflakes, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004 Get Well Soon, Feiwel & Friends, 2007 Into the Wild Nerd Yonder, Feiwel & Friends, 2009 Don’t Stop Now, Feiwel & Friends, 2011 Have a Nice Day, Feiwel & Friends, 2012 The F- It List, Feiwel & Friends, 2013 Maternity Leave, Thomas Dunne Books, 2015 Meant to Be, Feiwel & Friends, 2017 Girl on the Ferris Wheel (with Len Vlahos), Feiwel & Friends, 2021
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