The Margaret A. Edwards Award [2] honors an author for his or her significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature. Jim Murphy, perhaps best known for his non-fiction works, makes history come alive for teen readers. Check out some of Jim Murphy’s books [3] here @ HCPL!
Jim Murphy Reads:
- Across America on an Emigrant Train [4]
- An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 [5]
- Blizzard!: The Storm that Changed America [6]
- The Boys’ War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk about the Civil War [7]
- The Great Fire [8]
- The Long Road to Gettysburg [9]
- The Real Benedict Arnold [10]
- Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting [11]
- teen awards [12]
- Teens [13]
