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Updated 2026-07-11 / 135 books / 9 series
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.
Books by Theodore Taylor in Publication Order
1952
Lottie & Lisa(By: Erich Kastner)
POoACB / 1
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1954
The Magnificent Mitscher
POoNB / 1
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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
Teetoncey
POoCHTB / 1
Buy
1974
Stranger from the Sea
POoOBB / 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
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1981
The Trouble with Tuck
POoACB / 5
Buy
1981
The Battle Off Midway Island
POoNB / 6
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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
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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
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1986
Mystery of the Melted Diamonds(By: Carol Farley)
POoACB / 22
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1986
Ukrainian Egg Mystery(By: George E. Stanley)
POoACB / 23
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1986
Moroccan Mystery(By: Thomas McKean)
POoACB / 24
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1986
Ralph Fozbek and the Amazing Black Hole Patrol(By: Steve Senn)
POoACB / 25
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1986
Flash Fry, Private Eye(By: Tim Schoch)
POoACB / 26
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1986
The Anti-Peggy Plot(By: Thomas McKean)
POoACB / 27
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1987
The Stalker
POoSN / 7
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1987
The Hostage
POoSN / 8
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1987
Best Joke Book for Kids 2(By: Joan Eckstein)
POoACB / 28
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1987
The Codebreaker Kids(By: George E. Stanley)
POoACB / 29
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1987
Summer Camp Creeps(By: Tim Schoch)
POoACB / 30
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1988
The Case of the Lost Look-Alike(By: Carol Farley)
POoACB / 31
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1988
Breezy(By: Leda Blumberg)
POoACB / 32
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1988
Racing the Sun(By: Paul Pitts)
POoACB / 33
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1989
Sniper
POoSN / 9
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1989
H. M. S. Hood Vs. Bismarck
POoNB / 10
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1989
Anne Frank(By: Johanna Hurwitz)
POoACB / 34
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1990
Tuck Triumphant
POoTB / 1
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1990
The Case of the Vanishing Villain(By: Carol Farley)
POoACB / 35
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1990
Something Upstairs(By: C.S. Adler)
POoACB / 36
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1990
Ghost Brother(By: C.S. Adler)
POoACB / 37
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1990
A Haunting in Williamsburg(By: Lou Kassem)
POoACB / 38
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1991
Monocolo
POoSN / 10
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1991
The Weirdo
POoSN / 11
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1991
The Best Ever Kids' Book of Lists(By: Eugenie Allen)
POoACB / 39
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1992
Ask Me Anything About the Presidents(By: Louis Phillips)
POoACB / 40
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1992
The Adventures of King Midas(By: Lynne Reid Banks)
POoACB / 41
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1992
Tons of Trash(By: Joan Rattner Heilman)
POoACB / 42
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1992
Maria, a Christmas Story
POoACB / 43
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1993
Timothy of the Cay
POoTCB / 2
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1993
To Kill the Leopard
POoSN / 12
Buy
1993
Lucie Babbidge's House(By: Sylvia Cassedy)
POoACB / 44
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1993
How to Travel Through Time(By: James M. Deem)
POoACB / 45
Buy
1993
Beardance(By: Will Hobbs)
POoACB / 46
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1993
Christmas Countdown(By: Steve Englehart)
POoACB / 47
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1994
Miss Yonkers Goes Bonkers(By: Mike Thaler)
POoACB / 48
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1994
Super Snoop Sam Snout and the Case of the Missing Marble(By: Anne C. Lemieux)
POoACB / 49
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1994
The Mummy's Curse(By: Daniel Cohen)
POoACB / 50
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1994
Lemonade Days(By: Susan Kirby)
POoACB / 51
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1994
Main Street(By: Susan Kirby)
POoACB / 52
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1994
Comet Luck(By: Madge Harrah)
POoACB / 53
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1994
Home Front Hero(By: Susan Kirby)
POoACB / 54
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1995
The Bomb
POoSN / 13
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1995
Ali Baba Bernstein, Lost and Found(By: Johanna Hurwitz)
POoACB / 55
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1995
Kwanzaa(By: Mildred Pitts Walter)
POoACB / 56
Buy
1995
Goodbye, Desert Rose(By: Susan Kirby)
POoACB / 57
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1995
Vampire Mom(By: Don Whittington)
POoACB / 58
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1995
My Own Two Feet(By: Beverly Cleary)
POoACB / 59
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1995
Spookhouse(By: Don Whittington)
POoACB / 60
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1996
Rogue Wave
POoC / 1
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1996
Harry the Poisonous Centipede(By: Lynne Reid Banks)
POoACB / 61
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1996
Going for the Gold: Shannon Miller(By: Septima Green)
POoACB / 62
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1996
Four Perfect Pebbles(By: Lila Perl,Marion Blumenthal Lazan)
POoACB / 63
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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
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1997
Tracks in the Snow(By: Lucy Jane Bledsoe)
POoACB / 67
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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
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1998
It's In Your Hands, Daisy P. Duckwitz(By: Jacqueline Shannon)
POoACB / 76
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1998
Leaving Summer(By: Donal Harding)
POoACB / 77
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1998
Flea Circus Summer(By: Cheryl Ware)
POoACB / 78
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1998
Calling Me Home(By: Patricia Hermes)
POoACB / 79
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1999
The Pizza That Time Forgot(By: William DeAndrea,Matthew Deandrea)
POoACB / 80
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1999
Love Me, Love My Broccoli(By: Julie Anne Peters)
POoACB / 81
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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
Complete Theodore Taylor Series Reading Order /
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02
Timothy of the Cay
1993
Buy
01
Hello, Arctic!
2002
Buy
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
02
Teetoncey and Ben O'Neal
1975
Buy
03
The Odyssey of Ben O'Neal
1977
Buy
01
Tuck Triumphant
1990
Buy
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
08
Rocket Island
1985
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
01
Stranger from the Sea
1974
Buy
02
Box of Treasures
1975
Buy
03
Into the Wind
1977
Buy
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
18
Billy the Kid
2005
Buy
Where to start with Theodore Taylor
What is the best order to read Theodore Taylor books?
Publication order is usually the safest place to start. If a book belongs to a series,
follow the numbered series reading order shown on this page.
Are standalone books and series both included?
Yes. Standalone titles appear in the full chronological bibliography, and series are
broken out separately with reading-order links when catalog data is available.
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