Julie Halpern

• Oct-2007
• / General Fiction
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Anna Bloom is depressed -- so depressed that her parents have committed her to a mental hospital with a bunch of other messed-up teens. Here she meets a roommate with a secret (and a plastic baby), a doctor who focuses way too much on her weight, and...

• Oct-2009
• / General Fiction
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It's Jessie's sophomore year of high school. A self-professed "mathelete," she isn't sure where she belongs. Her two best friends have transformed themselves into punks and one of them is going after her longtime crush. Her beloved older brother will...

• Jun-2011
• / General Fiction
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On the first day of Lillian's summer-before-college, she gets a message on her cell from her sort-of friend, Penny. Not only has Penny faked her own kidnapping, but Lil is the only one who figures it out. She knows that Penny's home life has been rou...

• Oct-2012
• / General Fiction
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Anna Bloom has just come home from a three-week stay in a mental hospital. She feels...okay. It's time to get back to some sort of normal life, whatever that means. She has to go back to school, where teachers and friends are dying to know what happe...

• Nov-2013
• / General Fiction
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Alex and Becca have always been best friends. But when Becca does something nearly unforgivable at Alex’s dad’s funeral, Alex cuts ties with her and focuses on her grieving family. Time passes, and Alex finally decides to forgive Becca. Then ...

• Sep-2015
• / General Fiction
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Julie Halpern's Maternity Leave tells the profane, profound and just plain funny story of a professional woman who thinks she's ready for a baby but her maternity leave proves otherwise. Thirty six year old Annie Schwartz-Jensen is a middle school...

• Oct-2017
• / Contemporary Romance
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What if your soul mate was decided for you? It started happening a few years ago: the names of MTBs―“meant to be” mates―appeared emblazoned on the skin at age eighteen. Agatha’s best friend has embraced the phenomenon and is head over he...

• Jan-2021
• / Contemporary Romance
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In Girl on the Ferris Wheel, Julie Halpern and Len Vlahos expertly tackle this quirky and poignant romance that explores what first love really means -- and how it sometimes hurts like hell.Tenth graders Eliana and Dmitri could not be more different....