Books written by Jim Murphy

  • Guys Read: True Stories
    Guys Read: True Stories

    Jon Scieszka, Jim Murphy, Elizabeth Partridge, Nathan Hale, James Sturm, Candace Fleming, Douglas Florian, Sy Montgomery, Steve Sheinkin, T. Edward Nickens, Thanhhà Lai. B. EFORE. W. E. B. EGIN . . . Have you ever imagined what ...

  • Gone A-whaling: The Lure of the Sea and the Hunt for the Great Whale
    Gone A-whaling: The Lure of the Sea and the Hunt for the Great Whale

    Whiting, Emma Mayhew, and Henry Beetle Hough. Whaling Wives. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1953. Chapter 5: Nothing So Electrieying Bales, Ernest Sutherland, ed. The Bible (King James Version). New York: Simon 8c Schuster, 1951.

  • The Long Road to Gettysburg
    The Long Road to Gettysburg

    ... Southern officers , had brought along one of his family's slaves to cook , wash , and run errands . Since this promised to be a long and very hard march , Dooley decided to send his servant , Ned Haines , back home to Richmond where ...

  • An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
    An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793

    Recreates the devastation rendered to the city of Philadelphia in 1793 by an incurable disease known as yellow fever, detailing the major social and political events as well as the time's medical beliefs and practices.

  • Truce
    Truce

    at headquarters, General Horace Smith-Dorrien had been receiving disturbing reports all day about strange goings-on at the front. Fighting had all but ground to a halt, and the opposing armies were having friendly meetings in No Man's ...

  • Gone A-Whaling: The Lure of the Sea and the Hunt for the Great Whale
    Gone A-Whaling: The Lure of the Sea and the Hunt for the Great Whale

    Captain Amos Haskins as he appeared in 1850 , when he took command of the Massasoit . Haskins was thirty - four and had twentytwo men under him , twelve of whom were black . respect and advancement , their lot was certainly more ...

  • Real Philly History, Real Fast: Fascinating Facts and Interesting Oddities about the City's Heroes and Historic Sites
    Real Philly History, Real Fast: Fascinating Facts and Interesting Oddities about the City's Heroes and Historic Sites

    A unique, fast, and quirky guide to Philadelphia's heroes and historic sites

  • On Enemy Soil: Journal of James Edmond Pease, a Civil War Union Soldier
    On Enemy Soil: Journal of James Edmond Pease, a Civil War Union Soldier

    The Civil War JOURNAL OF JAMES EDMOND PEASE is now in paperback with an exciting repackaging!Ignorant to the bitter realities of military life, 16-year-old James enlists in the Union Army at the dawn of the Civil War.

  • The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk about the Civil War
    The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk about the Civil War

    First-hand accounts that include diary entries and personal letters describe the experiences of boys, sixteen years old or younger, who fought in the Civil War.

  • The Great Fire
    The Great Fire

    The Great Fire of 1871 was one of most colossal disasters in American history.

  • A Young Patriot: The American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy
    A Young Patriot: The American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy

    Recounts skirmishes and major campaigns by a soldier who enlisted at age fifteen and served seven years with Washington's Continental Army

  • Blizzard!: The Storm that Changed America
    Blizzard!: The Storm that Changed America

    With his powerful and intriguing narrative style, Newbery Honor Book author Jim Murphy tells the harrowing story of the Blizzard of 1888. Available for the first time in paperback.Snow began...

  • Guys Read: True Stories
    Guys Read: True Stories

    Compiled and edited by real-life literature legend Jon Scieszka, Guys Read: True Stories is a mind-blowing collection of essays, biographies, how-to guides, and more, all proving that the truth is most definitely out there.

  • Desperate Journey
    Desperate Journey

    Two-time Newbery Honor author turns his formidable talents to this riveting suspense novel about a spirited Irish-American girl who helps save her family from ruin on the Erie Canal in...

  • The Box of Stuff: Leon's Story
    The Box of Stuff: Leon's Story

    The box of stuff in my basement was just going to sit there until someone throws it out after I'm gone. What a waste that would be. Leon's story was...

  • The Real Benedict Arnold
    The Real Benedict Arnold

    Provides a comprehensive look at the life of this American army officer and hero who turned traitor and the motives that led him to do what he did through letters, memoirs, and political documents from that period in history. 25,000 first ...

  • The Last Dinosaur

    Depicts what life might have been like for the last dinosaurs on earth.

  • The Indy 500
    The Indy 500

    Takes the reader through an Indy 500, including the crash of one of the cars. Discusses the car, track, pit crew, etc.

  • Night Terrors

    These are the hours when our dreams betray us and night terrors take hold.

  • Into the Deep Forest with Henry David Thoreau
    Into the Deep Forest with Henry David Thoreau

    Excerpts from Thoreau's own writings highlight an account of an adventure-filled journey deep into the forests of Maine. By the author of Across America on an Emigrant Train.