Author
Jim Murphy
4 books here
The Great Fire
Nonfiction · ages 9–12 · 800L · 2003
The gold standard for elementary history—Murphy weaves eyewitness accounts and period illustrations into a page-turner that teaches research method without feeling like a textbook.
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793
Nonfiction · ages 10–14 · 820L · 2003
Gripping, historically rigorous account that models how evidence overturns expert consensus—kids emerge understanding both the horror and the intellectual detective work of epidemiology.
An American Plague
Nonfiction · ages 10–14 · 820L · 2003
The rare history book that reads like a thriller—Murphy reconstructs the 1793 Philadelphia epidemic with primary sources and personal narratives, making disease, science, and civic breakdown visceral and unforgettable.
Across America on an Emigrant Train
Nonfiction · ages 10–14 · 780L · 1993
Jim Murphy makes 1880s railroad history vivid and human through period letters and photographs; kids emerge with genuine understanding of how ordinary people migrated west, not sanitized textbook facts.