Jim Murphy
Author · 27 books
An American author of more than 35 nonfiction and fiction books for children, young adults, and general audiences, including more than 30 about American history. He won the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 2010 for his contribution in writing for teens. Jim lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, in a hundred-year-old house with his wife Alison Blank, a children’s TV producer and children’s book author and editor, his two talented musician sons, a regal mutt, an African water frog that will live forever, and a house vast collection of books..
Series
Books
Pick & Shovel Poet
The Journeys of Pascal D'Angelo.
2000
Gone A-Whaling
The Lure of the Sea and the Hunt for the Great Whale
1998
West to a Land of Plenty
1998
The Boys' War
Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War
1990
Across America on an Emigrant Train
1993
Breakthrough!
How Three People Saved "Blue Babies" and Changed Medicine Forever
2015
An American Plague
The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
2003
A Savage Thunder
2009
Dinosaur for a Day
1992
The Crossing
How George Washington Saved The American Revolution
2010
The Journal of James Edmond Pease
A Civil War Union Soldier, Virginia, 1863
1998
A Young Patriot
The American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy
1996
The Journal of Brian Doyle
Greenhorn on an Alaskan Whaling Ship, The Florence, 1874
2004
Night Terrors
1993
My Face to the Wind
The Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher
2001
Truce
The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting
2009
Fergus and the Night-Demon
2006
The Great Fire
1995
The Giant and How He Humbugged America
2012
Blizzard!
The Storm That Changed America
2000
Ocho #28
2009
Inside The Alamo
2003
The Last Dinosaur
1988
The Long Road to Gettysburg
1992
Invincible Microbe
Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure
2012
Desperate Journey
2006
The Real Benedict Arnold
2007
