Resources – Learn More About Alaska
Check out Charles Mason’s many amazing photos at: http://masonphotos.zenfolio.com Learn about Claire’s other Alaskan books and info about Alaska at: https://clairerudolfmurphy.com/A_Childs_Alaska2.html:. Extensive material for use in the classroom at: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/states/alaska/: Learn about the 1988 Operation Breakthrough, including the book and movie Big Miracle at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Breakthrough The Alaska Kids web site features […]
Hamline University
In addition to being an accomplished writer and storyteller, Claire is a creative writing a teacher and currently on faculty at Hamline University. She teaches and advises aspiring authors in Hamline’s Low Residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults program. THE MFA IN WRITING FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS Hamline University’s Graduate […]
Gold Rush Women
The women who joined the gold rushes in the Yukon and Alaska between the late 1880s and the early 1900s get scant attention in the history books. This collective biography draws on primary sources to tell their stories, with fascinating historical photographs and portraits on every page.[…] With its handsome, browsable design, this will be […]
This book is out of print. Copies available at online used booksellers, such as betterworldbooks.com. Luke McHenry loves baseball. After repeated disappointments, he is determined to make the All Star team. Then his mother makes an explosive confession: 31 years ago she was involved in an anti–Vietnam War protest that went horribly wrong, and a […]
Daughters of the Desert – Excerpts
Story from the Book Woman to Woman (Mary of Nazareth) By Claire Rudolf Murphy “Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, ‘Most blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb.” Christian Bible, Luke 1:41-42 “My soul magnifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices […]