Most Popular Books by Theodore Taylor

Introduce your students to this Newbery award-winning book! This guide includes an author biography, background information, summaries, thought-provoking discussion questions, as well as creative, cross-curricular activities and reproducibles that motivate students. For use with Grades 4-8.

A survey of the motion picture industry describing the varied aspects of direction and production: sets, makeup, stunts, visual and sound effects, acting, cutting, and publicity.

German and Japanese submarine operations on the East and West Coasts of the U.S. in 1942 and our merchant marine''s struggle against them.

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An account of the June, 1942, air battle between American and Japanese forces which proved a decisive defeat for the Japanese and the turning point of the war in the Pacific.

When during World War II a freighter is bombed, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded during the disaster, is stranded on an island with an old black man. The boy acquires courage and love from his old companion.