Theodore Taylor

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  • Bibliography:
    31 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1969
  • Latest Book:
    June 2019
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Full Series List in Order

The Cay

1 - The Cay (Jan-1969)
2 - Timothy of the Cay (Apr-2007)

The Outer Banks Trilogy

1 - Teetoncey (1974)
2 - Teetoncey and Ben O'Neal (1975)
3 - Into the Wind: The Odyssey of Ben O'Neal (May-1995)
3 - The Odyssey Of Ben O'Neal (Aug-2004)

Multi-Author Series List

Great Episodes

Air Raid--Pearl Harbor! (May-2001)

Book List in Order: 31 titles

  • The Cay

    The Cay - 1

    SHIPWRECKED! All his life Phillip had looked down upon black-skinned people. Now, suddenly, he was a refugee from a fatal shipwreck, and dependent on an extraordinary West Indian named Timothy. There were just the two of them cast up on the barren...

  • The Children's War

  • The Maldonado Miracle

    Twelve-year-old Jose Maldonado used to dream of becoming a fine artist. But this son of a poor Mexican farmer now focuses on survival, not art. After Jose’s mother died, his father left to work in the United States, leaving Jose on his own in Mexic...

  • Teetoncey

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    The Outer Banks Trilogy - 1

    Ben O'Neal finds a girl shipwrecked on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. He names her Teetoncey, which means small, and brings her home....

  • Teetoncey and Ben O'Neal

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    The Outer Banks Trilogy - 2

    Now recovered from the shipwreck that killed her parents, Teetoncey reveals a secret: Two chests full of silver went down with her ship. Can Tee, Ben, and his friends dredge up the treasure without arousing suspicions?...

  • The Trouble With Tuck

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    A GIRL’S BEST FRIEND “No one can definitely say when Friar Tuck began to go blind. But the light probably began to fail for big Tuck long before any of us suspected it, and of course, being a dog, he couldn't very well talk about it. It didn't...

  • Sweet Friday Island

    Uninhabited and remote, Sweet Friday Island rises out of the Sea of Cortez, the flattened top of an ancient mountain. Its rugged terrain makes it the perfect place for fifteen-year-old Peg Toland and her adventurous dad to take their favorite kind of...

  • The Hostage

  • The Stalker

    In a chilling tale of revenge and retribution, a father tracks the man responsible for the sexual abuse and murder of his daughter, a criminal protected by diplomatic immunity, family power and influence, and his own crafty ingenuity...



  • Monocolo

  • Sniper

    A Killer Stalks The Night

    The canyon is dark. Pitch dark. It is quiet. Deathly quiet, except for the howl of distanct coyotes and the occasional roar of one of the big cats. Fifteen-year-old Ben has been left in...

  • H.M.S. Hood Vs Bismark

  • Tuck Triumphant

    In the long-awaited sequel to THE TROUBLE WITH TUCK, Helen's blind Labrador faces his greatest challenge ever when his own Seeing Eye dog is brutally killed and Tuck uses all of his senses to help a frightened Korean orphan who can't hear. Exciting r...

  • The Weirdo

    A reclusive teenager finds love while searching for his friend’s killer in this Edgar Award-winning YA mystery -- “timely and compelling” (Publishers Weekly).   Seventeen-year-old Chip Clewt is known to most people simply as “the weirdo....

  • Maria: a Christmas Story

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    A CHRISTMAS STORY Eleven-year-old Maria Gonzaga didn't know what compelled her to do such a foolish thing. She knew her father would be furious. Yet at that moment, the only thing that mattered was that she was entering her family in the big float c...

  • To Kill the Leopard

    Aboard the oil tanker SS Galveston, American merchant mariner Sully Jordan has joined the dash across the North Atlantic to a besieged Great Britain. Beneath the surface of those same chill waters Kapitanleutnant Horst Kammerer prowls with U-122 -- ...

  • Walking Up a Rainbow

    To save her home, feisty teenage orphan Susan Carlisle makes a harrowing journey from Iowa to California to sell her sheep to gold miners and falls in love with Clay Carmer, in an adventure set in the 1850s....

  • Into the Wind: The Odyssey of Ben O'Neal

    The Outer Banks Trilogy - 3

  • Rogue Wave

    Eight gripping stories by award-winning author Theodore Taylor capture the power of the sea and the people drawn to it. From the tale of a teenage girl who fights for her life after a rogue wave traps her in the cabin of the overturned boat, to the s...



  • Air Raid--Pearl Harbor!

    Great Episodes

    "A date which will live in infamy..." On December 7, 1941, Americans were stunned to learn that Japanese forces had launched an attack on Pearl Harbor. In this engrossing and extensively researched account, Theodore Taylor examines both sides of ...

  • A Sailor Returns

    Evan Bryant, an eleven-year-old boy in 1914 whose strict father has little time for him, is delighted when his long-lost Grandfather Pentreath returns, relates his many sea adventures, and hobbles around like Evan who has a club foot. 20,000 first pr...

  • The Boy Who Could Fly Without A Motor

    Jon Jeffers is the loneliest nine-year-old on earth. It's 1935, and he's stuck on a tiny rocky island off the coast of San Francisco with his mother and his lighthouse-keeper father. Jon longs for something more. If only he had a way to escape this f...

  • Lord of the Kill

    A chilling murder in the wild… When a half-eaten body is found inside a locked jaguar cage, eighteen-year-old Ben Jepson knows it's no prank -- someone is trying to make trouble for the Los Coyotes Big Cat Preserve and its manager, Ben's father. ...

  • The Odyssey Of Ben O'Neal

    The Outer Banks Trilogy - 3

  • Billy the Kid

    This YA Western adventure imagines an alternate fate for the famous outlaw: “Readers will hang on anxiously and eagerly as the plot gallops [forward]” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   William H. Bonney Jr., better known as Billy the Ki...

  • Ice Drift

    The year is 1868, and fourteen-year-old Alika and his younger brother, Sulu, are hunting for seals on an ice floe attached to their island in the Arctic. Suddenly the ice starts to shake, and they hear a loud crack--the terrible sound of the floe bre...

  • Timothy of the Cay

    The Cay - 2

    In the novel The Cay, a young white boy and an old black man are stranded on a small sandy cay in the Caribbean Sea following a shipwreck. Eleven-year-old Phillip was blinded by flying debris when a torpedo struck the SS Hato, and old Timothy has tau...

  • The Bomb

    It is 1946, a year after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and World War II is over. But the U.S. government has decided that further tests of atomic bombs must be conducted. When Bikini Atoll is chosen for the testing site, the inhabitants of ...

  • Battle in the Arctic Seas

    In 1942, America's most crucial mission was to provide arms and supplies to our English and Russian allies. Theodore Taylor, who served in the merchant marines in World War II, tells the tragic tale of a convoy of 33 ships that sailed from Iceland to...



  • Hello, Arctic!

    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,...

  • The Lioness

Award-Winning Books by Theodore Taylor

The Bomb
1996 Scott O Dell Award for Historical Fiction -- Historical Fiction
The Weirdo
1992 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Young Adult


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Theodore Taylor has published 31 books.

Theodore Taylor does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Lioness, was published in June 2019.

The first book by Theodore Taylor, The Cay, was published in January 1969.

Yes. Theodore Taylor has 2 series.
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