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Jim Murphy (2) [1947–2022]

This page covers the author of An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (Newbery Honor Book).

For other authors named Jim Murphy, see the disambiguation page.

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Jim Murphy has written more than twenty-five books for young people. In addition to the Newbery Honor, which he received for The Great Fire, he has won many other awards, including the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award and a Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor. He is also the two-time winner of both the SCBWI Golden Kite Award and the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award Mr. Murphy lives with his family in Maplewood, New Jersey
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Works by Jim Murphy
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever… 1,075 copies, 90 reviews
The Great Fire 1,060 copies, 37 reviews
West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi 960 copies, 7 reviews
The Journal of James Edmond Pease, a Civil War Union Soldier 831 copies, 11 reviews
The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War 680 copies, 18 reviews
Blizzard!: The Storm That Changed America 567 copies, 20 reviews
My Face to the Wind : the Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher 429 copies, 5 reviews
Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting 366 copies, 28 reviews
Across America on an Emigrant Train 294 copies, 7 reviews
The Long Road to Gettysburg 279 copies, 1 review
The Call of the Wolves (A Blue Ribbon Book) 228 copies, 2 reviews
A Young Patriot: The American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy 212 copies, 1 review
The Last Dinosaur 169 copies
Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure 157 copies, 9 reviews
Dinosaur for a Day 155 copies, 2 reviews
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Guys Read: True Stories (Contributor) 132 copies, 2 reviews
911: The Book of Help (Contributor) 44 copies, 1 review
Dear America: The Nation at War: The Civil War Collection 7 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 2, October 1980 (Contributor) 2 copies
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