Most Popular Books by Theodore Taylor

In 1852, a fourteen-year-old orphan and her elderly guardian, accompanied by a tough drover and his crew, take several thousand sheep from Iowa to California, returning by ship through the Panama Canal, to raise money to save the girl''s home from a villainous debt collector.

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A unique collection of time standards, manufacturing methods, and overall `rules of thumb'' used for cost-estimating electronic equipment and systems. As the only book available on the subject, it covers all operations from machining and sheet metal fabrication through wiring, circuit board assembly, electrical testing, and packaging. In addition, it describes the fields of production schedule determination, personnel facility planning ratios, and concept estimating.

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When sixteen-year-old Sam falls in love with disfigured Chip Clewt and helps him in his campaign to save the black bears in the North Carolina swamp near her home, she gets in deep trouble with her father, an avid hunter.

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.

The Arctic is more than ice and snow. As the seasons change and winter turns to spring, birds return, seals leap and splash, and polar bears are born. Childlike, rhythmic text invites us to greet the animals that come with the turn of seasons--Hello, birds! Hello, seals! Hello, cubs!--while gorgeous illustrations reveal the wondrous creatures and colors of this stirring northern land. Theodore Taylor, the author of many bestselling novels for teens, combines talents with visionary artist Margaret Chodos-Irvine in an exhilarating celebration of the wonders of the Arctic.