Book Awards & Distinctions
for Jim Murphy
1 Lifetime Achievement Award 42 Total Book Awards
An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 (9)
ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2024
Commended, 2004
Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, 1967-2024
Winner, 2004
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2004
John Newbery Medal, 1922-2024
Honor, 2004
Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Award, 1997-2024
Selection, 2004
Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2024
Winner, 2004
The Great Fire (5)
ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2024
Commended, 1996
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1995
John Newbery Medal, 1922-2024
Honor, 1996
Blizzard!: The Storm That Changed America (4)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2001
Breakthrough!: How Three People Saved 'Blue Babies' and Changed Medicine Forever (4)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2016
Horn Book Fanfare, 2001-2023
Selection, 2015
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
Nonfiction Selection, 2016
Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2024
Selection, 2016
Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure (4)
ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2024
Commended, 2013
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2013
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
History Selection, 2012
Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2024
Commended, 2013
Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting (4)
ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2024
Commended, 2010
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2010
Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2024
Selection, 2010
Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2024
Commended, 2010
The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk about the Civil War (2)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1990
Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2024
Nonfiction Winner, 1991
The Long Road to Gettysburg (2)
Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2024
Nonfiction Winner, 1993
Pick-And-Shovel Poet: The Journeys of Pascal D'Angelo (2)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 2001
Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2024
Commended, 2001
A Young Patriot: The American Revolution as Experienced by One Boy (2)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1996
The Crossing: How George Washington Saved the American Revolution (1)
Lasting Connections, 2000 - 2020
Selection, 2010
The Giant and How He Humbugged America (1)
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
Nonfiction Selection, 2013
Into the Deep Forest: With Henry David Thoreau (1)
CCBC Choices
Selection, 1995
Revenge of the Green Banana (1)
Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2024
Elementary Selection, 2017