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, 1995-2025
Commended, 2004

Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards, 1967-2024
Winner, 2004

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2004

John Newbery Medal, 1922-2025
Honor, 2004

Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts Award, 1997-2025
Selection, 2004

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Winner, 2004
The Great Fire (5)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 1996

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1995

John Newbery Medal, 1922-2025
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, 2001-2024
Selection, 2015

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
Nonfiction Selection, 2016

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 2016
Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure (4)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2013

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2013

Junior Library Guild Selections, 2012-2025
History Selection, 2012

Outstanding Science Trade Books, 2005-2025
Commended, 2013
Truce: The Day the Soldiers Stopped Fighting (4)

ALSC Notable Children's Books, 1995-2025
Commended, 2010

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2010

Notable Books for a Global Society, 1996-2025
Selection, 2010

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
Commended, 2010
The Boys' War: Confederate and Union Soldiers Talk about the Civil War (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 1990

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Nonfiction Winner, 1991
The Long Road to Gettysburg (2)

Golden Kite Awards, 1974-2025
Nonfiction Winner, 1993
Pick-And-Shovel Poet: The Journeys of Pascal D'Angelo (2)

CCBC Choices
Selection, 2001

Orbis Pictus Award, 2000-2025
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, 2012-2025
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, 2012-2025
Elementary Selection, 2017