Two-time Newbery Honor Book and Sibert Award winning author Jim Murphy grew up just a stone’s throw from New York City, in a smallish industrial town on the Passaic River. His childhood consisted of thousands of baseball games with neighborhood kids, roaming the vast New Jersey Meadowlands, and inventing various “adventures.” More

 

Truce
The Day That the Soldiers
Stopped Fighting

Scholastic Press
October 2009

Kirkus (starred): "Spectacular."
Booklist: (starred): "Excellent"
SLJ (starred): "Affecting."

 

 
Winner of the 2010 Margaret Edwards Award for significant contribution to young adult literature More


An American Plague
Newbery Honor Book
Sibert Award



The Great Fire
Newbery Honor Book


BLIZZARD!
Sibert Honor Book


A Savage Thunder
Antietam and the Bloody Road to Freedom

Margaret K. McElderry/Simon & Schuster, July 2009

Kirkus (starred): "Grand."
Booklist: (starred): "Stirring."
SLJ (starred):
"Lucid and compelling."