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Jim Murphy (2) (1947–2022)

Autor/a de The Great Fire

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41+ obres 10,370 Membres 281 Ressenyes 1 preferits

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Jim Murphy has written more than twenty-five books for young people. In addition to the Newbery Honor, which he received for The Great Fire, he has won many other awards, including the Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award and a Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor. He is also the two-time winner of mostra'n més both the SCBWI Golden Kite Award and the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award Mr. Murphy lives with his family in Maplewood, New Jersey mostra'n menys

Obres de Jim Murphy

The Great Fire (1995) 1,281 exemplars
The Long Road to Gettysburg (1992) 330 exemplars
The Call of the Wolves (1989) 276 exemplars
The Last Dinosaur (1988) 198 exemplars
Dinosaur for a Day (1587) 184 exemplars
Desperate Journey (2006) 144 exemplars
The Real Benedict Arnold (2007) 86 exemplars
Inside The Alamo (2003) 63 exemplars
Fergus and the Night-Demon (1992) 42 exemplars
Weird & Wacky Inventions (1978) 40 exemplars
Night Terrors (1993) 38 exemplars
Revenge of the Green Banana (2017) 24 exemplars
Baffling & Bizarre Inventions (1876) 22 exemplars
Guess Again (1986) 21 exemplars
Rat's Christmas Party (1979) 14 exemplars
Backyard Bear (1993) 12 exemplars
The Indy 500 (1983) 10 exemplars
Harold Thinks Big (1988) 7 exemplars
Baseball's All-time All-stars (1984) 5 exemplars
Death Run (1982) 5 exemplars
Two hundred years of bicycles (1983) 4 exemplars

Obres associades

Guys Read: True Stories (2014) — Col·laborador — 182 exemplars
911: The Book of Help (2002) — Col·laborador — 49 exemplars
Dear America: The Nation at War: The Civil War Collection (2002) — Col·laborador — 12 exemplars
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 2, October 1980 — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars

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Good account of a Blizzard near my hometown that I knew nothing about.
Apparently, drawings were heavily used in the newspapers at the time - I didn't know that. Interesting that there were photos of the Blizzard too.
Of course, forecasting was in its infancy & the weatherman of the day were looking at a scientific approach, where the farmers and seamen would have been a whole lot more knowledgeable, if the forecasters would have listened.
 
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nancynova | Hi ha 20 ressenyes més | Jan 25, 2024 |
This was facinating book that both described the centuries old battle against TB, but did a good job of describing the development of the medical profession.
 
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mslibrarynerd | Hi ha 9 ressenyes més | Jan 13, 2024 |
2.5stars. Listed as geared towards grades 5-8. I can't imagine that anyone in that age group would find this entertaining. I love Robert Louis Stevenson's collection of poetry, _A Child's Garden of Verses_. So, I appreciated learning a little more about him.
 
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CarolHicksCase | Hi ha 7 ressenyes més | Mar 12, 2023 |
This was an interesting and informative book, but could have been much better. It is a short book, only about 150 pages. But the narrative is even shorter as there are many illustrations, which are actually the best part of the book. On almost every other page is an illustration from the time period, thus reducing the prose.

The book is the story of the Yellow Fever plague in Philadelphia in 1793. Unfortunately, the medical community neither knew what caused the disease, nor how to properly cure it. Only later did they learn the disease was carried by mosquitoes.

Overall, it is not a bad book, but I wish the story had gone deeper into the daily life of the citizens of Philadelphia and how they coped with the plague, as well as some in-depth stories of those who suffered and recovered from the disease.

As I said, the illustrations are beautiful and are the best part of the book, thus I was able to give it 3 stars. As it is a very short read, I can recommend it for those interested in this subject. There is a nice index and list of sources at the end for those wishing to read further on the subject.
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dwcofer | Hi ha 90 ressenyes més | Feb 17, 2023 |

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Obres
41
També de
4
Membres
10,370
Popularitat
#2,292
Valoració
3.9
Ressenyes
281
ISBN
227
Llengües
6
Preferit
1

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