Julie L. Casey

Julie L. Casey creates fiction for younger readers informed by education, homeschooling, and rural family life. How I Became a Teenage Survivalist, published in 2013, begins the Teenage Survivalist series and follows a teenager learning to cope after a widespread power-grid failure changes ordinary routines. The sequence continues with Time Lost: Teenage Survivalist II and Ice Queen, extending its attention to family pressures, practical adaptation, and resilience. Casey taught preschool for fifteen years and later homeschooled her children. She holds degrees in education and computer programming, and her interests include historical reenactment and wildlife rehabilitation. Those varied experiences give How I Became a Teenage Survivalist a practical frame for its coming-of-age story. Rather than treating preparedness as an abstract exercise, the novel places problem-solving inside a young person's changing relationships, responsibilities, and understanding of community.