Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Susan Campbell Bartoletti was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and grew up surrounded by lots of pets — ducks, guinea pigs, parakeets, hamsters, even a goat. As a girl, Bartoletti enjoyed horseback riding, piano lessons and exploring nature, but she liked reading and drawing the best.

Bartoletti majored in English in college and enjoyed all kinds of writing assignments, including research reports, creative writing assignments, poetry and journalism. After graduation, she became an eighth-grade English teacher and advisor to the student literary magazine. For nearly ten years she taught and wrote books, and she credits her students with inspiring her to pursue writing full time.

Bartoletti writes picture books, as well as great non-fiction for older students. She is the author of Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine 1845-1850 (Sibert Award) Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow (Newbery Honor) and Growing Up in Coal Country.

Books by this author

Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Age Level:

9-12

Boy Who Dared

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Age Level:

9-12

Growing Up in Coal Country

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Age Level:

9-12

Kids on Strike

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Age Level:

9-12

My Name is America: The Journal of Finn Reardon

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Age Level:

9-12

Poor Mary Mallon did not realize that she carried a disease that might (and sometimes did) kill the families for whom she cooked. How the early 20^th century medical mystery was solved is presented in a well-researched, spellbinding narrative. In addition, Gail Jarrow’s Fatal Fever: Typhoid Mary (Calkins Creek) focuses on those responsible for tracing Mary.

Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Age Level:

9-12

Genre:

Nonfiction, Biography, Mystery

In the early 20th century, an Irish woman named Mary Mallon worked as a cook. The New York home in which she operated was struck with typhoid fever to become the first of many incidents. The story of the cook who became known as Typhoid Mary is presented as a medical mystery which introduces the time and its history in a riveting narrative.