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

  

The Crossing
The Crossing
How George Washington
Saved America
Scholastic Press
December 2010

Booklist (starred): "Refreshingly
frank and vivid."
SLJ: (starred): "A first purchase."
Kirkus: "Superbly written."
PW: "Absorbing."

 
 
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


Truce
The Day That the Soldiers
Stopped Fighting
Scholastic Press
October 2009

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