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Home / Authors / Theodore Taylor Theodore Taylor American author Theodore Taylor is best known for his acclaimed middle-grade novel *The Cay*, which won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award and remains a staple in classrooms. His books have sold millions of copies worldwide. This page provides the Theodore Taylor books in order, including both chronological and series reading order.
All books · chronological
1952 Lottie & Lisa(By: Erich Kastner) POoACB · 1 Buy ↗ 1954 The Magnificent Mitscher POoNB · 1 Buy ↗ 1968 The Body Trade POoSN · 1 Buy ↗ 1969 The Cay POoTCB · 1 Buy ↗ 1971 Air Raid--Pearl Harbor! POoNB · 2 Buy ↗ 1973 Rebellion Town, Williamsburg, 1776 POoSN · 2 Buy ↗ 1974 Stranger from the Sea POoOBB · 1 Buy ↗ 1974 Teetoncey POoCHTB · 1 Buy ↗ 1974 The Children's War POoSN · 3 Buy ↗ 1975 Teetoncey and Ben O'Neal POoCHTB · 2 Buy ↗ 1975 Box of Treasures POoOBB · 2 Buy ↗ 1976 Battle in the Arctic Sea POoNB · 3 Buy ↗ 1977 Into the Wind POoOBB · 3 Buy ↗ 1977 The Odyssey of Ben O'Neal POoCHTB · 3 Buy ↗ 1977 A Shepherd Watches, a Shepherd Sings(With: Louis Irigaray) POoNB · 4 Buy ↗ 1980 Summerdog Comes Home(By: George Albert Zabriskie) POoACB · 2 Buy ↗ 1981 A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher(By: Mike Thaler) POoACB · 3 Buy ↗ 1981 Baseball Fever(By: Ray Cruz,Johanna Hurwitz) POoACB · 4 Buy ↗ 1981 The Trouble with Tuck POoACB · 5 Buy ↗ 1981 The Battle Off Midway Island POoNB · 6 Buy ↗ 1982 Basic Fun(By: Susan Drake Lipscomb,Margaret Ann Zusnich) POoACB · 6 Buy ↗ 1982 Irma and Jerry(By: George Selden) POoACB · 7 Buy ↗ 1983 Battle in the English Channel POoNB · 7 Buy ↗ 1983 Esp McGee(By: Edward Packard) POoACB · 8 Buy ↗ 1983 Tunnel to Yesterday(By: Jerome Beatty Jr.) POoACB · 9 Buy ↗ 1983 Bet You Can! Science Possibilities to Fool You(By: Vicki Cobb) POoACB · 10 Buy ↗ 1983 Rich Mitch(By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat) POoACB · 11 Buy ↗ 1983 Summerdog(By: Thom Roberts) POoACB · 12 Buy ↗ 1983 Bet You Can't!(By: Kathy Darling,Vicki Cobb) POoACB · 13 Buy ↗ 1983 The Earth is Flat--And Other Great Mistakes(By: Laurence Pringle) POoACB · 14 Buy ↗ 1983 Behind the Attic Wall(By: Sylvia Cassedy) POoACB · 15 Buy ↗ 1984 Sweet Friday Island POoSN · 4 Buy ↗ 1984 Peggy Fleming: Portrait of an Iceskater(By: Bruce Curtis,Stephanie Young) POoACB · 16 Buy ↗ 1984 Gremlins(By: George Gipe) POoACB · 17 Buy ↗ 1984 Maura's Angel(By: Lynne Reid Banks) POoACB · 18 Buy ↗ 1985 Rocket Island POoNB · 8 Buy ↗ 1985 The Cats of Shambala POoNB · 9 Buy ↗ 1985 The Jellyfish Season(By: Mary Downing Hahn) POoACB · 19 Buy ↗ 1985 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 1(By: Andrew Glass,Catherine Edwards Sadler) POoACB · 20 Buy ↗ 1985 Get Rich Mitch!(By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat) POoACB · 21 Buy ↗ 1986 Walking Up a Rainbow POoSN · 5 Buy ↗ 1986 The Maldonado Miracle POoSN · 6 Buy ↗ 1986 Mystery of the Melted Diamonds(By: Carol Farley) POoACB · 22 Buy ↗ 1986 Ukrainian Egg Mystery(By: George E. Stanley) POoACB · 23 Buy ↗ 1986 Moroccan Mystery(By: Thomas McKean) POoACB · 24 Buy ↗ 1986 Ralph Fozbek and the Amazing Black Hole Patrol(By: Steve Senn) POoACB · 25 Buy ↗ 1986 Flash Fry, Private Eye(By: Tim Schoch) POoACB · 26 Buy ↗ 1986 The Anti-Peggy Plot(By: Thomas McKean) POoACB · 27 Buy ↗ 1987 The Stalker POoSN · 7 Buy ↗ 1987 The Hostage POoSN · 8 Buy ↗ 1987 Best Joke Book for Kids 2(By: Joan Eckstein) POoACB · 28 Buy ↗ 1987 The Codebreaker Kids(By: George E. Stanley) POoACB · 29 Buy ↗ 1987 Summer Camp Creeps(By: Tim Schoch) POoACB · 30 Buy ↗ 1988 The Case of the Lost Look-Alike(By: Carol Farley) POoACB · 31 Buy ↗ 1988 Breezy(By: Leda Blumberg) POoACB · 32 Buy ↗ 1988 Racing the Sun(By: Paul Pitts) POoACB · 33 Buy ↗ 1989 H. M. S. Hood Vs. Bismarck POoNB · 10 Buy ↗ 1989 Anne Frank(By: Johanna Hurwitz) POoACB · 34 Buy ↗ 1990 Tuck Triumphant POoTB · 1 Buy ↗ 1990 The Case of the Vanishing Villain(By: Carol Farley) POoACB · 35 Buy ↗ 1990 Something Upstairs(By: C.S. Adler) POoACB · 36 Buy ↗ 1990 Ghost Brother(By: C.S. Adler) POoACB · 37 Buy ↗ 1990 A Haunting in Williamsburg(By: Lou Kassem) POoACB · 38 Buy ↗ 1991 Monocolo POoSN · 10 Buy ↗ 1991 The Weirdo POoSN · 11 Buy ↗ 1991 The Best Ever Kids' Book of Lists(By: Eugenie Allen) POoACB · 39 Buy ↗ 1992 Ask Me Anything About the Presidents(By: Louis Phillips) POoACB · 40 Buy ↗ 1992 The Adventures of King Midas(By: Lynne Reid Banks) POoACB · 41 Buy ↗ 1992 Tons of Trash(By: Joan Rattner Heilman) POoACB · 42 Buy ↗ 1992 Maria, a Christmas Story POoACB · 43 Buy ↗ 1993 Timothy of the Cay POoTCB · 2 Buy ↗ 1993 To Kill the Leopard POoSN · 12 Buy ↗ 1993 Lucie Babbidge's House(By: Sylvia Cassedy) POoACB · 44 Buy ↗ 1993 How to Travel Through Time(By: James M. Deem) POoACB · 45 Buy ↗ 1993 Beardance(By: Will Hobbs) POoACB · 46 Buy ↗ 1993 Christmas Countdown(By: Steve Englehart) POoACB · 47 Buy ↗ 1994 Miss Yonkers Goes Bonkers(By: Mike Thaler) POoACB · 48 Buy ↗ 1994 Super Snoop Sam Snout and the Case of the Missing Marble(By: Anne C. Lemieux) POoACB · 49 Buy ↗ 1994 The Mummy's Curse(By: Daniel Cohen) POoACB · 50 Buy ↗ 1994 Lemonade Days(By: Susan Kirby) POoACB · 51 Buy ↗ 1994 Main Street(By: Susan Kirby) POoACB · 52 Buy ↗ 1994 Comet Luck(By: Madge Harrah) POoACB · 53 Buy ↗ 1994 Home Front Hero(By: Susan Kirby) POoACB · 54 Buy ↗ 1995 The Bomb POoSN · 13 Buy ↗ 1995 Ali Baba Bernstein, Lost and Found(By: Johanna Hurwitz) POoACB · 55 Buy ↗ 1995 Kwanzaa(By: Mildred Pitts Walter) POoACB · 56 Buy ↗ 1995 Goodbye, Desert Rose(By: Susan Kirby) POoACB · 57 Buy ↗ 1995 Vampire Mom(By: Don Whittington) POoACB · 58 Buy ↗ 1995 My Own Two Feet(By: Beverly Cleary) POoACB · 59 Buy ↗ 1995 Spookhouse(By: Don Whittington) POoACB · 60 Buy ↗ 1996 Rogue Wave POoC · 1 Buy ↗ 1996 Harry the Poisonous Centipede(By: Lynne Reid Banks) POoACB · 61 Buy ↗ 1996 Going for the Gold: Shannon Miller(By: Septima Green) POoACB · 62 Buy ↗ 1996 Four Perfect Pebbles(By: Lila Perl,Marion Blumenthal Lazan) POoACB · 63 Buy ↗ 1996 Zombie Queen(By: Don Whittington) POoACB · 64 Buy ↗ 1996 Freak Show(By: Don Whittington) POoACB · 65 Buy ↗ 1996 Going to Net(By: Various) POoACB · 66 Buy ↗ 1997 Tracks in the Snow(By: Lucy Jane Bledsoe) POoACB · 67 Buy ↗ 1997 Danger Along the Ohio(By: Patricia Willis) POoACB · 68 Buy ↗ 1997 Lasting Echoes(By: Joseph Bruchac) POoACB · 69 Buy ↗ 1998 The Flight of Jesse Leroy Brown POoNB · 11 Buy ↗ 1998 Night of the Chupacabras(By: Marie G. Lee) POoACB · 70 Buy ↗ 1998 As Ever, Gordy(By: Mary Downing Hahn) POoACB · 71 Buy ↗ 1998 No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War(By: Anita Lobel) POoACB · 72 Buy ↗ 1998 Becoming Felix(By: Nancy Hope Wilson) POoACB · 73 Buy ↗ 1998 Breakaway(By: Kimberley Griffiths Little) POoACB · 74 Buy ↗ 1998 Mischief, Mad Mary, and Me(By: Dawn Knight) POoACB · 75 Buy ↗ 1998 It's In Your Hands, Daisy P. Duckwitz(By: Jacqueline Shannon) POoACB · 76 Buy ↗ 1998 Leaving Summer(By: Donal Harding) POoACB · 77 Buy ↗ 1998 Flea Circus Summer(By: Cheryl Ware) POoACB · 78 Buy ↗ 1998 Calling Me Home(By: Patricia Hermes) POoACB · 79 Buy ↗ 1999 The Pizza That Time Forgot(By: William DeAndrea,Matthew Deandrea) POoACB · 80 Buy ↗ 1999 Love Me, Love My Broccoli(By: Julie Anne Peters) POoACB · 81 Buy ↗ 1999 Get on the Net(By: Robert Pondiscio) POoACB · 82 Buy ↗ 1999 Don't Try This at Home!(By: Vicki Cobb) POoACB · 83 Buy ↗ 1999 Bruce Coville's Shapeshifters(By: Bruce Coville) POoACB · 84 Buy ↗ 1999 A Kids' Guide to America's Bill of Rights(By: Kathleen Krull) POoACB · 85 Buy ↗ 1999 Bruce Coville's Alien Visitors(By: Bruce Coville) POoACB · 86 Buy ↗ 1999 Green Mango Magic(By: Sylvie Hossack) POoACB · 87 Buy ↗ 2000 All the Answers(By: Anne C. Lemieux) POoACB · 88 Buy ↗ 2000 Can of Worms(By: Kathy MacKel) POoACB · 89 Buy ↗ 2000 Orphan Journey Home(By: Liza Ketchum) POoACB · 90 Buy ↗ 2000 Bearstone(By: Will Hobbs) POoACB · 91 Buy ↗ 2000 Alice-by-Accident(By: Lynne Reid Banks) POoACB · 92 Buy ↗ 2000 Death at Devil's Bridge(By: Cynthia C. DeFelice) POoACB · 93 Buy ↗ 2001 A Sailor Returns POoSN · 14 Buy ↗ 2002 Hello, Arctic! POoPB · 1 Buy ↗ 2002 The Boy Who Could Fly Without a Motor POoSN · 15 Buy ↗ 2002 Lord of the Kill POoSN · 16 Buy ↗ 2003 Alice By Accident(By: Lynne Reid Banks) POoACB · 94 Buy ↗ 2004 Making Love to Typewriters POoNB · 12 Buy ↗ 2005 Ice Drift POoSN · 17 Buy ↗ 2005 Billy the Kid POoSN · 18 Buy ↗ Book series · browse all →
Publication Order of The Cay Books 2 books · 1969–1993
02 Timothy of the Cay 1993 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Picture Books 1 book · 2002
01 Hello, Arctic! 2002 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Avon Camelot Books 94 books · 1952–2003
01 Lottie & Lisa(By: Erich Kastner) 1952 Buy ↗ 02 Summerdog Comes Home(By: George Albert Zabriskie) 1980 Buy ↗ 03 A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher(By: Mike Thaler) 1981 Buy ↗ 04 Baseball Fever(By: Ray Cruz,Johanna Hurwitz) 1981 Buy ↗ 05 The Trouble with Tuck 1981 Buy ↗ 06 Basic Fun(By: Susan Drake Lipscomb,Margaret Ann Zusnich) 1982 Buy ↗ 07 Irma and Jerry(By: George Selden) 1982 Buy ↗ 08 Esp McGee(By: Edward Packard) 1983 Buy ↗ 09 Tunnel to Yesterday(By: Jerome Beatty Jr.) 1983 Buy ↗ 10 Bet You Can! Science Possibilities to Fool You(By: Vicki Cobb) 1983 Buy ↗ 11 Rich Mitch(By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat) 1983 Buy ↗ 12 Summerdog(By: Thom Roberts) 1983 Buy ↗ 13 Bet You Can't!(By: Kathy Darling,Vicki Cobb) 1983 Buy ↗ 14 The Earth is Flat--And Other Great Mistakes(By: Laurence Pringle) 1983 Buy ↗ 15 Behind the Attic Wall(By: Sylvia Cassedy) 1983 Buy ↗ 16 Peggy Fleming: Portrait of an Iceskater(By: Bruce Curtis,Stephanie Young) 1984 Buy ↗ 17 Gremlins(By: George Gipe) 1984 Buy ↗ 18 Maura's Angel(By: Lynne Reid Banks) 1984 Buy ↗ 19 The Jellyfish Season(By: Mary Downing Hahn) 1985 Buy ↗ 20 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 1(By: Andrew Glass,Catherine Edwards Sadler) 1985 Buy ↗ 21 Get Rich Mitch!(By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat) 1985 Buy ↗ 22 Mystery of the Melted Diamonds(By: Carol Farley) 1986 Buy ↗ 23 Ukrainian Egg Mystery(By: George E. Stanley) 1986 Buy ↗ 24 Moroccan Mystery(By: Thomas McKean) 1986 Buy ↗ 25 Ralph Fozbek and the Amazing Black Hole Patrol(By: Steve Senn) 1986 Buy ↗ 26 Flash Fry, Private Eye(By: Tim Schoch) 1986 Buy ↗ 27 The Anti-Peggy Plot(By: Thomas McKean) 1986 Buy ↗ 28 Best Joke Book for Kids 2(By: Joan Eckstein) 1987 Buy ↗ 29 The Codebreaker Kids(By: George E. Stanley) 1987 Buy ↗ 30 Summer Camp Creeps(By: Tim Schoch) 1987 Buy ↗ 31 The Case of the Lost Look-Alike(By: Carol Farley) 1988 Buy ↗ 32 Breezy(By: Leda Blumberg) 1988 Buy ↗ 33 Racing the Sun(By: Paul Pitts) 1988 Buy ↗ 34 Anne Frank(By: Johanna Hurwitz) 1989 Buy ↗ 35 The Case of the Vanishing Villain(By: Carol Farley) 1990 Buy ↗ 36 Something Upstairs(By: C.S. Adler) 1990 Buy ↗ 37 Ghost Brother(By: C.S. Adler) 1990 Buy ↗ 38 A Haunting in Williamsburg(By: Lou Kassem) 1990 Buy ↗ 39 The Best Ever Kids' Book of Lists(By: Eugenie Allen) 1991 Buy ↗ 40 Ask Me Anything About the Presidents(By: Louis Phillips) 1992 Buy ↗ 41 The Adventures of King Midas(By: Lynne Reid Banks) 1992 Buy ↗ 42 Tons of Trash(By: Joan Rattner Heilman) 1992 Buy ↗ 43 Maria, a Christmas Story 1992 Buy ↗ 44 Lucie Babbidge's House(By: Sylvia Cassedy) 1993 Buy ↗ 45 How to Travel Through Time(By: James M. Deem) 1993 Buy ↗ 46 Beardance(By: Will Hobbs) 1993 Buy ↗ 47 Christmas Countdown(By: Steve Englehart) 1993 Buy ↗ 48 Miss Yonkers Goes Bonkers(By: Mike Thaler) 1994 Buy ↗ 49 Super Snoop Sam Snout and the Case of the Missing Marble(By: Anne C. Lemieux) 1994 Buy ↗ 50 The Mummy's Curse(By: Daniel Cohen) 1994 Buy ↗ 51 Lemonade Days(By: Susan Kirby) 1994 Buy ↗ 52 Main Street(By: Susan Kirby) 1994 Buy ↗ 53 Comet Luck(By: Madge Harrah) 1994 Buy ↗ 54 Home Front Hero(By: Susan Kirby) 1994 Buy ↗ 55 Ali Baba Bernstein, Lost and Found(By: Johanna Hurwitz) 1995 Buy ↗ 56 Kwanzaa(By: Mildred Pitts Walter) 1995 Buy ↗ 57 Goodbye, Desert Rose(By: Susan Kirby) 1995 Buy ↗ 58 Vampire Mom(By: Don Whittington) 1995 Buy ↗ 59 My Own Two Feet(By: Beverly Cleary) 1995 Buy ↗ 60 Spookhouse(By: Don Whittington) 1995 Buy ↗ 61 Harry the Poisonous Centipede(By: Lynne Reid Banks) 1996 Buy ↗ 62 Going for the Gold: Shannon Miller(By: Septima Green) 1996 Buy ↗ 63 Four Perfect Pebbles(By: Lila Perl,Marion Blumenthal Lazan) 1996 Buy ↗ 64 Zombie Queen(By: Don Whittington) 1996 Buy ↗ 65 Freak Show(By: Don Whittington) 1996 Buy ↗ 66 Going to Net(By: Various) 1996 Buy ↗ 67 Tracks in the Snow(By: Lucy Jane Bledsoe) 1997 Buy ↗ 68 Danger Along the Ohio(By: Patricia Willis) 1997 Buy ↗ 69 Lasting Echoes(By: Joseph Bruchac) 1997 Buy ↗ 70 Night of the Chupacabras(By: Marie G. Lee) 1998 Buy ↗ 71 As Ever, Gordy(By: Mary Downing Hahn) 1998 Buy ↗ 72 No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War(By: Anita Lobel) 1998 Buy ↗ 73 Becoming Felix(By: Nancy Hope Wilson) 1998 Buy ↗ 74 Breakaway(By: Kimberley Griffiths Little) 1998 Buy ↗ 75 Mischief, Mad Mary, and Me(By: Dawn Knight) 1998 Buy ↗ 76 It's In Your Hands, Daisy P. Duckwitz(By: Jacqueline Shannon) 1998 Buy ↗ 77 Leaving Summer(By: Donal Harding) 1998 Buy ↗ 78 Flea Circus Summer(By: Cheryl Ware) 1998 Buy ↗ 79 Calling Me Home(By: Patricia Hermes) 1998 Buy ↗ 80 The Pizza That Time Forgot(By: William DeAndrea,Matthew Deandrea) 1999 Buy ↗ 81 Love Me, Love My Broccoli(By: Julie Anne Peters) 1999 Buy ↗ 82 Get on the Net(By: Robert Pondiscio) 1999 Buy ↗ 83 Don't Try This at Home!(By: Vicki Cobb) 1999 Buy ↗ 84 Bruce Coville's Shapeshifters(By: Bruce Coville) 1999 Buy ↗ 85 A Kids' Guide to America's Bill of Rights(By: Kathleen Krull) 1999 Buy ↗ 86 Bruce Coville's Alien Visitors(By: Bruce Coville) 1999 Buy ↗ 87 Green Mango Magic(By: Sylvie Hossack) 1999 Buy ↗ 88 All the Answers(By: Anne C. Lemieux) 2000 Buy ↗ 89 Can of Worms(By: Kathy MacKel) 2000 Buy ↗ 90 Orphan Journey Home(By: Liza Ketchum) 2000 Buy ↗ 91 Bearstone(By: Will Hobbs) 2000 Buy ↗ 92 Alice-by-Accident(By: Lynne Reid Banks) 2000 Buy ↗ 93 Death at Devil's Bridge(By: Cynthia C. DeFelice) 2000 Buy ↗ 94 Alice By Accident(By: Lynne Reid Banks) 2003 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Cape Hatteras Trilogy Books 3 books · 1974–1977
02 Teetoncey and Ben O'Neal 1975 Buy ↗ 03 The Odyssey of Ben O'Neal 1977 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Collections 1 book · 1996
Publication Order of Tuck Books 1 book · 1990
01 Tuck Triumphant 1990 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books 12 books · 1954–2004
01 The Magnificent Mitscher 1954 Buy ↗ 02 Air Raid--Pearl Harbor! 1971 Buy ↗ 03 Battle in the Arctic Sea 1976 Buy ↗ 04 A Shepherd Watches, a Shepherd Sings(With: Louis Irigaray) 1977 Buy ↗ 06 The Battle Off Midway Island 1981 Buy ↗ 07 Battle in the English Channel 1983 Buy ↗ 09 The Cats of Shambala 1985 Buy ↗ 10 H. M. S. Hood Vs. Bismarck 1989 Buy ↗ 11 The Flight of Jesse Leroy Brown 1998 Buy ↗ 12 Making Love to Typewriters 2004 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Outer Banks Books 3 books · 1974–1977
01 Stranger from the Sea 1974 Buy ↗ 02 Box of Treasures 1975 Buy ↗ Publication Order of Standalone Novels 18 books · 1968–2005
01 The Body Trade 1968 Buy ↗ 02 Rebellion Town, Williamsburg, 1776 1973 Buy ↗ 03 The Children's War 1974 Buy ↗ 04 Sweet Friday Island 1984 Buy ↗ 05 Walking Up a Rainbow 1986 Buy ↗ 06 The Maldonado Miracle 1986 Buy ↗ 12 To Kill the Leopard 1993 Buy ↗ 14 A Sailor Returns 2001 Buy ↗ 15 The Boy Who Could Fly Without a Motor 2002 Buy ↗ 16 Lord of the Kill 2002 Buy ↗