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Jim Murphy

Born

in Kearny, New Jersey, The United States

September 25, 1947

Died

May 01, 2022

Website

http://www.jimmurphybooks.com/

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Genre

Young Adult, History, Historical Fiction

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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..

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Average rating: 3.82 · 19,421 ratings · 2,741 reviews · 32 distinct works • Similar authors

	An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 3.83 avg rating — 4,714 ratings — published 2003 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Fire 3.84 avg rating — 2,803 ratings — published 1995 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi 3.77 avg rating — 2,786 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Face to the Wind: The Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher 3.75 avg rating — 1,849 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blizzard!: The Storm That Changed America 3.81 avg rating — 1,457 ratings — published 2000 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting 4.01 avg rating — 1,172 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure 3.93 avg rating — 810 ratings — published 2012 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk About the Civil War – A Golden Kite Award Winner About America's Bloodiest Conflict for Children (Ages 10-12) 3.77 avg rating — 769 ratings — published 1990 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Journal of James Edmond Pease: A Civil War Union Soldier, Virginia, 1863 3.72 avg rating — 618 ratings — published 1998 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved "Blue Babies" and Changed Medicine Forever really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 460 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Sometimes...I lose myself in looking back upon the ocean which I have passed, and now and then find myself surprised by a tear in reflecting upon the friends I have lost, and the scenes of distress that I have witnessed, and which I was unable to relieve.

—Dr. Benjamin Rush”
― Jim Murphy, An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

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“...a single tongue of flame shooting out the side of the O'Learys' barn.
(Where the fire started)”
― Jim Murphy, The Great Fire

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“Simply calling the Great Fire an accident did not satisfy some people, most notably the local newspapers. They demanded a culprit--”
― Jim Murphy, The Great Fire

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