Taylor, Theodore

Seventeen-year-old Chip Clewt fights to save the black bears in the Powhaten National Wildlife Refuge.

Fourteen-year-old Helen, her blind dog Friar Tuck, and her family face some dramatic challenges when they discover that the Korean boy they have adopted is deaf.

Eleven-year-old Maria and her family are the first Mexican Americans to enter a float in the annual Christmas parade in San Lazaro, California.

Fifteen-year-old Ben must cope alone when a mysterious sniper begins shooting the big cats in his family's private zoological preserve.

Having survived being blinded and shipwrecked on a tiny Caribbean island with the old black man Timothy, twelve-year-old white Phillip is rescued and hopes to regain his sight with an operation. Alternate chapters follow the life of Timothy from his days as a young cabin boy.

Philip, an adolescent white boy who is blinded in a torpedo attack at sea during World War II, acquires a new type of vision, courage, and love when he is stranded on a tiny Caribbean island with Timothy, a kind, elderly black man.

Fifteen-year-old Ben must cope alone when a mysterious sniper begins shooting the big cats in his family's private zoological preserve.

Describes the disastrous voyage from Iceland to Russia of the supply-laden allied convoy PQ 17 during the summer of 1942.

Greets the birds and animals of the tundra as they experience the change of seasons in their frozen northern land.

Recounts the mission of Convoy PQ 17, a group of merchant ships sailing in arctic seas and carrying supplies for the Allied forces during World War II. Describes how the vessels and crew responded when they were attacked by U-boats and bombers and terrorized by the most powerful battleship in the German navy, the "Tirpitz.".