Jim Murphy
James John Patrick Murphy (1947–2022) was an American author who wrote more than 35 nonfiction and fiction books for children, young adults, and general audiences, with a focus on American history. He won the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2010 and received two Newbery Honor Book Awards for his contributions to literature for teens.
nonfiction
fiction
children's literature
young adult literature
American history
Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved "Blue Babies" and Changed Medicine Forever
Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved "Blue Babies" and Changed Medicine Forever
The Great Fire: Library Edition
INNER EXCELLENCE: Train Your Mind for Extraordinary Performance and the Best Possible life
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
Blizzard!: The Storm That Changed America
Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting
The Great Fire
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
A True Patriot: The Journal of William Thomas Emerson
The Crossing: How George Washington Saved The American Revolution
The Journal of James Edmond Pease: A Civil War Union Soldier, Virginia, 1863
Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure
The Real Benedict Arnold
The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War
The On Enemy Soil: Journal of James Edmond Pease, a Civil War Union Soldier
The Giant and How He Humbugged America
Blizzard
Weird & Wacky Inventions
Baffling & Bizarre Inventions
A Savage Thunder: Antietam and the Bloody Road to Freedom
The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War
Across America on an Emigrant Train
The Long Road to Gettysburg