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Summary: 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 school teacher.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: Y DAMurphy, Jim
Summary: James Edmond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his experiences and those of "G" Company which he joined as a volunteer in the Union Army during the Civil War.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 1998
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Summary: Learn how George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River helped save the American revolution.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2010
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Summary: By weaving personal accounts of actual survivors together with the carefully researched history of Chicago and the disaster, [the author] constructs a ... narrative that recreates the events.... And finally, he reveals how, even in a time of deepest despair, the human spirit triumphed, as the people of Chicago found the courage and strength to build their city once again. -Dust jacket.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 1995
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 977.3 MURCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 977.311 MURMurphy, Jim
Summary: It's 1793, and there's an invisible killer roaming the streets of Philadelphia. The city's residents are fleeing in fear. This killer has a name--yellow fever--but everything else about it is a mystery. Its cause is unknown and there is no cure. This [book] traces the devastating course of the epidemic. [The book] offers a ... glimpse into the conditions in American cities at the time of our...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 614.541 MURMurphy, Jim
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974 MURMurphy, Jim
Summary: Accounts of actual survivors and historical writings are woven together to create a thrilling book about the 1871 Chicago Fire, that reads like an adventure story.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1998