Jim Murphy, Author , read by Taylor Mali. Audio Bookshelf $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-883332-91-4
With a confident and sometimes matter-of-fact tone, Mali brings listeners back in time to March 12, 1888—the day two storms converged to create an East Coast blizzard some called the Great White Hurricane. New York City and its environs were...
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Jim Murphy, Author . Delacorte $16.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-385-32574-5
Opening his account on February 23, 1836, Murphy (The Great Fire) ably captures the mood of suspense when the Mexican army bursts on the scene to take on a ragtag group of Texan rebels attempting to defend their fortress, the Alamo ("Suddenly,...
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Jim Murphy, Author . Scholastic Press $19.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-545-13049-3
Murphy's (A Savage Road to Thunder
) account of the causes and first months of WWI offers a poignant and sometimes graphic introduction to the “war to end all wars.” While a few of the sepia-toned photos and artwork portray haunting
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Jim Murphy, Scholastic Press, $21.99 (96p) ISBN 978-0-439-69186-4
Murphy (Truce) again digs into the well of history, this time emerging with a well-researched, absorbing account of the early battles of the Revolutionary War with Gen. George Washington at their center. Enhanced by numerous sepia maps of troop...
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Jim Murphy, Author Clarion Books $18 (128p) ISBN 978-0-395-55965-9
Excerpts from the diaries of two young officers, Lt. John Dooley of the Confederacy and Cpl. Thomas Galway of the Union army, are at the heart of this compelling account of the Civil War's bloodiest battle. Expertly blending details about the battle
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Jim Murphy, Author Clarion Books $8.95 (110p) ISBN 978-0-395-66412-4
From first chapter (``So I Became a Soldier'') to last (``We're Going Home''), this wrenching look at our nation's bloodiest conflict through the eyes of its youthful participants serves up history both heartbreaking and enlightening. Ages 8-12. (Mar
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Jim Murphy, Author Scholastic Press $22.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-590-47267-8
For more than a century, poor Mrs. O'Leary and her cow have shouldered the blame for Chicago's infamous Great Fire of 1871. Now Murphy (The Boys' War; Across America on an Emigrant Train) lays bare the facts concerning one of the biggest disasters...
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Jim Murphy, Author Bradbury Press $13.95 (91p) ISBN 978-0-02-767720-1
The author of Weird and Wacky Inventions is back with another collection of inventions almost too preposterous to believe. Only Murphy's assurances could convince the reader that someone really did invent a coffin with an escape hatch (to comfort...
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Jim Murphy, Author Clarion Books $18 (128p) ISBN 978-0-89919-893-4
Readers of Russell Freedman's Newbery-winning Lincoln: A Photobiography , viewers of the recent PBS Civil War documentary series and even Nintendo-addicted preteens will find themselves immediately caught up in this dramatic and at times tragic book.
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Jim Murphy. Scholastic Press, $19.99 (112p) ISBN 978-0-439-69184-0
Americans eager for diversions in the post–Civil War era were easily taken in by showmen such as P.T. Barnum. In this book, Murphy (The Crossing: How George Washington Saved the American Revolution) explains how another hoodwinker, George Hull,...
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Jim Murphy, Author, Kate Kiesler, Illustrator Clarion Books $14.95 (39p) ISBN 978-0-395-60522-6
Presented as an account of one of Thoreau's three treks into Maine's wilderness, this is a thoroughly shuffled amalgamation of the philosopher/naturalist's quotes held in place by Murphy's fiction. Despite its mongrelization, the text is eminently...
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Jim Murphy, Author, Jeffrey Greene, Illustrator Scholastic $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-44375-3
Borne on Greene's detailed, nocturnal pastel illustrations, this realistic tale rises above its matter-of-fact roots to take on hues of wonder and imminence. One night, a hungry black bear cub wanders innocently into a neighborhood, unaware of its...
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Jim Murphy, Author, Mark Alan Weatherby, Illustrator Scholastic $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-590-41097-7
Superbly realistic paintings of these unreal, remote creatures give this story an eerie, dramatic thrust. Murphy begins with a factual recitation of facts about the Age of Dinosaurs and then moves into a fictional account of a herd of triceratops,...
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Jim Murphy, Author, Mark Alan Weatherby, Illustrator Scholastic $4.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-590-44875-8
From its opening array of dinosaur facts, this intriguing book moves into a fictional account of a herd of triceratops. PW said, ``Superbly realistic paintings of these unreal, remote creatures give this story an eerie, dramatic thrust.'' Ages 4-8. (
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Jim Murphy, Author, Mark Alan Weatherby, Illustrator Scholastic $15.95 (1p) ISBN 978-0-590-42866-8
With its odd, sometimes uneasy mix of fact and fiction, this story of a neatly imagined, drama-filled day of a parent Hysilophodon may disappoint eager dinosaurophiles. Though creatively presented, Murphy and Weatherby's proficient collaboration...
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Jim Murphy, Author . Clarion $17 (192p) ISBN 978-0-395-77608-7
In marked contrast to the clipped, suspenseful pace of his Inside the Alamo
(reviewed above), Murphy here adopts a leisurely, lyrical tone to chronicle the invisible spread of the deadly disease that not only crippled Philadelphia (then the...
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Jim Murphy, Author . Clarion $20 (264p) ISBN 978-0-395-77609-4
The two-faced silhouette of Benedict Arnold on the cover of Murphy’s (An
American Plague
) biography furnishes a telling image: one profile looks sharp and stately; the other has the crooked features and sinister frown typical of a villain....
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Jim Murphy. Clarion, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-544-78677-6
Jimmy Murphy is “the sort of kid who could try the patience of a saint,” and he gets plenty of opportunities to test that billing in this semi-autobiographical tale of Catholic school trauma, set in 1950s New Jersey. Jimmy begins sixth grade...
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Jim Murphy, Author, John Manders, Illustrator , illus. by John Manders. Clarion $16 (32p) ISBN 978-0-618-33955-6
Paying homage to the traditions of Irish folklore, Murphy (The Great Fire
) crafts an original tale in which a lazy lad from the Emerald Isle uses wit and words to wiggle out of a spooky scrape. Fergus loves his life as a ne'er-do-well, always...
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Jim Murphy. Clarion, $18.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-547-82183-2
Murphy (Invincible Microbe) vividly details the contributions of three major participants in the first heart operation on a child with congenital heart defects resulting in oxygen-poor blood, known as a "blue baby." With exemplary clarity, Murphy...
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