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Blizzard!
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Murphy, Jim |
Presents a history, based on personal accounts and newspaper articles, of the massive snow storm that hit the Northeast in 1888, focusing on the events in New York City. |
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Inside the Alamo
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Murphy, Jim |
An overview of the struggle between the Texan settlers and Mexico's General Santa Anna for control of Texas, with a detailed description of the 1836 siege of the Alamo. Includes biographical sketches… |
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My face to the wind
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Murphy, Jim |
Following her father's death from a disease that swept through her Nebraska town in 1881, teenaged Sarah Jane must find work to support herself and records in her diary her experiences as a young sch… |
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The real Benedict Arnold
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Murphy, Jim |
"Drawing on Arnold's surviving writings and on the letters, memoirs, and political documents of his contemporaries ... a fascinating portrait of a brilliant man, consistently undervalued by his peers… |
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Backyard bear
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Murphy, Jim |
After developers encroach upon its forest home, a young black bear wanders into a neighborhood and creates chaos in the middle of a peaceful summer night. |
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Baseball's all-time all-stars
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Murphy, Jim |
The author presents two hypothetical "all-time, all-star" teams chosen from the best players in baseball history, with accompanying research to support his choices. |
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Fergus and the Night-Demon
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Murphy, Jim |
On his way to town to have some fun, a lazy but clever young man faces a terrible demon, who declares that his time has come. |
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Gone a-whaling
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Murphy, Jim |
Surveys the history of the whaling industry from its earliest days to the present, focusing on the young boys who managed to sign on for whaling voyages. |
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The last dinosaur
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Murphy, Jim |
Depicts what life might have been like for the last dinosaurs on earth. |
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Night terrors
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Murphy, Jim |
A chatty old gravedigger shares chilling tales he's heard in his wanderings from one cemetery to another. |
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Rat's Christmas party
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Murphy, Jim,Jim Murphy,Dick Gackenbach |
Mean Rat does his best to spoil the other animals' Christmas. |
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Weird & wacky inventions
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Murphy, Jim |
Includes drawings of unusual inventions submitted to the patent office with clues to aid the reader in guessing the purpose of each invention. |
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Dear America
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Murphy, Jim |
The first humorous book in the Dear America series follows an Italian girl's immigrant family as they move from New York City to a utopian community in the frontier West.
While traveling in 1883 w… |
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Across America on an emigrant train
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Murphy, Jim |
Combines an account of Robert Louis Stevenson's experiences as he traveled from New York to California by train in 1879 and a description of the building and operation of railroads in nineteenth-cent… |
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The boys' war
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Murphy, Jim |
Includes diary entries, personal letters, and archival photographs to describe the experiences of boys, sixteen years old or younger, who fought in the Civil War. |
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