Young adult author Julie Berry will visit Milton Public Library on Monday, April 7 to discuss storytelling and her YA debut, All the Truth That’s In Me, just released this September by Viking. Julie will lead a discussion then read from her new novel All the Truth That’s In Me at 6 p.m. in the Keys Community Room at the library. The critically acclaimed novel has drawn comparisons to The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, and Julie will incorporate these comparisons into her discussion. Afterwards, Julie will meet with the library’s teen book club for a Q&A discussion about the book.

All the Truth That’s In Me tells the story of Judith, a young woman in an ambiguously colonial setting who was kidnapped as a teenager and returns to her village two years later unable to speak. Reviled by the villagers and former friends, the lonely Judith silently pours out her thoughts in powerful prose to Lucas, he childhood friend and only love. When her town comes under siege, Judith knows that the truth she was silenced for can save the village – but how can she speak up when she has no voice? Judith’s poetic but relentless narration in All the Truth That’s In Me unfolds an intense mystery and romance as she struggles for a voice of her own. All the Truth That’s In Me debuted in thirteen countries and provinces to five starred reviews from Kirkus, The Horn Book, and others. It has gained glowing reviews in The New York Times and The Boston Globe and has been nominated for an Edgar Award by Mystery Writers of America, longlisted for a 2014 Carnegie Medal in the U.K., and named a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Top Ten Title. The Boston Globe, Kirkus, The Horn Book, and School Library Journal all named the title to their “best of 2013” lists.

Julie Berry grew up in western New York and now lives in Maynard with her husband and four sons. She holds a BS from Rensselaer in communication and an MFA from Vermont College in writing for children and young adults. The Amaranth Enchantment (2009 Bloomsbury), a Junior Library Guild selection and Indie Next Top Ten pick, was Berry’s first book, followed by Secondhand Charm (2010 Bloomsbury) and theSplurch Academy for Disruptive Boys series of comic/graphic novels (2010 Grosset & Dunlap/Penguin Books for Young Readers). Her forthcoming middle grade release is The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place (Fall 2014, Roaring Brook). For more information, visitwww.julieberrybooks.com.