Theodore Taylor était un auteur américain réputé, principalement connu pour ses fictions pour jeunes adultes. Né en 1921, Taylor commença à écrire à l'âge de 13 ans, couvrant les événements sportifs du lycée local. Sa vie a pris plusieurs tournants intéressants avant qu'il ne devienne un écrivain à temps plein. Il a servi comme marin marchand pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et a également participé à la guerre de Corée. Ces expériences ont fourni plus tard une inspiration pour nombre de ses romans.
Taylor est le plus célèbre pour ses romans pour jeunes adultes, qui tirent leur inspiration d'expériences réelles. Certains de ses travaux les plus remarquables incluent "The Cay", sa préquelle-suite "Timothy of the Cay", "The Weirdo", "Ice Drift", "The Boy", "Sniper" et "Rogue Wave". Il est intéressant de noter que Taylor a écrit "The Cay" en seulement trois semaines. Ce roman, ainsi que beaucoup de ses autres œuvres, a reçu des critiques élogieuses et des récompenses. "The Cay" lui-même a remporté le Lewis Carroll Shelf Award et a été adapté en un film.
Bien que Taylor soit principalement connu pour ses romans pour jeunes adultes, il a également écrit beaucoup de fictions pour adultes. Malheureusement, Taylor est décédé en 2006. Cependant, son travail continue d'inspirer et de captiver les lecteurs, jeunes et moins jeunes. Son talent pour tisser des histoires captivantes à partir d'expériences réelles a laissé une empreinte durable sur le monde littéraire.
Cape Hatteras Trilogy Books
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Teetoncey
1974
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Teetoncey and Ben O'Neal
1975
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The Odyssey of Ben O'Neal
1977
The Cay Books
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The Cay
1969
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Timothy of the Cay
1993
Outer Banks Books
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Stranger from the Sea
1974
2
Box of Treasures
1975
3
Into the Wind
1977
Tuck Books
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Tuck Triumphant
1990
Romans indépendants
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The Body Trade
1968
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Rebellion Town, Williamsburg, 1776
1973
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The Children's War
1974
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Sweet Friday Island
1984
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Walking Up a Rainbow
1986
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The Maldonado Miracle
1986
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The Stalker
1987
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The Hostage
1987
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Sniper
1989
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Monocolo
1991
11
The Weirdo
1991
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To Kill the Leopard
1993
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The Bomb
1995
14
A Sailor Returns
2001
15
The Boy Who Could Fly Without a Motor
2002
16
Lord of the Kill
2002
17
Ice Drift
2005
18
Billy the Kid
2005
Livres d'images
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Hello, Arctic!
2002
Collections
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Rogue Wave
1996
Livres de non-fiction
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The Magnificent Mitscher
1954
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Air Raid--Pearl Harbor!
1971
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Battle in the Arctic Sea
1976
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A Shepherd Watches, a Shepherd Sings (With: Louis Irigaray)
1977
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A Shepherd Watches, a Shepherd Sings
1977
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Jule
1979
7
The Battle Off Midway Island
1981
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Battle in the English Channel
1983
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Rocket Island
1985
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The Cats of Shambala
1985
11
H. M. S. Hood Vs. Bismarck
1989
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The Flight of Jesse Leroy Brown
1998
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Making Love to Typewriters
2004
Avon Camelot Books
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Lottie & Lisa
1952
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Lottie & Lisa (By: Erich Kastner)
1952
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Summerdog Comes Home
1980
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Summerdog Comes Home (By: George Albert Zabriskie)
1980
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Baseball Fever
1981
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A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher (By: Mike Thaler)
1981
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Baseball Fever (By: Ray Cruz, Johanna Hurwitz)
1981
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A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher
1981
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The Trouble with Tuck
1981
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Irma and Jerry
1982
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Irma and Jerry (By: George Selden)
1982
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Basic Fun
1982
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Basic Fun (By: Susan Drake Lipscomb, Margaret Ann Zusnich)
1982
14
Esp McGee (By: Edward Packard)
1983
15
Summerdog
1983
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Esp McGee
1983
17
Tunnel to Yesterday (By: Jerome Beatty Jr.)
1983
18
Bet You Can! Science Possibilities to Fool You (By: Vicki Cobb)
1983
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Tunnel to Yesterday
1983
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Rich Mitch (By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat)
1983
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Bet You Can! Science Possibilities to Fool You
1983
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Rich Mitch
1983
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Summerdog (By: Thom Roberts)
1983
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The Earth is Flat--And Other Great Mistakes
1983
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Bet You Can't! (By: Kathy Darling, Vicki Cobb)
1983
26
Behind the Attic Wall
1983
27
The Earth is Flat--And Other Great Mistakes (By: Laurence Pringle)
1983
28
Behind the Attic Wall (By: Sylvia Cassedy)
1983
29
Peggy Fleming: Portrait of an Iceskater
1984
30
Gremlins
1984
31
Peggy Fleming: Portrait of an Iceskater (By: Bruce Curtis, Stephanie Young)
1984
32
Maura's Angel
1984
33
Gremlins (By: George Gipe)
1984
34
The Jellyfish Season
1985
35
Maura's Angel (By: Lynne Reid Banks)
1984
36
The Jellyfish Season (By: Mary Downing Hahn)
1985
37
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 1
1985
38
Mystery of the Melted Diamonds
1986
39
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 1 (By: Andrew Glass, Catherine Edwards Sadler)
1985
40
Ukrainian Egg Mystery
1986
41
Get Rich Mitch! (By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat)
1985
42
Mystery of the Melted Diamonds (By: Carol Farley)
1986
43
Moroccan Mystery
1986
44
Ralph Fozbek and the Amazing Black Hole Patrol
1986
45
Ukrainian Egg Mystery (By: George E. Stanley)
1986
46
Moroccan Mystery (By: Thomas McKean)
1986
47
Flash Fry, Private Eye
1986
48
The Anti-Peggy Plot
1986
49
Ralph Fozbek and the Amazing Black Hole Patrol (By: Steve Senn)
1986
50
Flash Fry, Private Eye (By: Tim Schoch)
1986
51
Best Joke Book for Kids 2
1987
52
The Codebreaker Kids
1987
53
The Anti-Peggy Plot (By: Thomas McKean)
1986
54
Summer Camp Creeps
1987
55
Best Joke Book for Kids 2 (By: Joan Eckstein)
1987
56
The Case of the Lost Look-Alike
1988
57
The Codebreaker Kids (By: George E. Stanley)
1987
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Breezy
1988
59
Summer Camp Creeps (By: Tim Schoch)
1987
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The Case of the Lost Look-Alike (By: Carol Farley)
1988
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Racing the Sun
1988
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Breezy (By: Leda Blumberg)
1988
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Anne Frank
1989
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Racing the Sun (By: Paul Pitts)
1988
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Ghost Brother
1990
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The Case of the Vanishing Villain
1990
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Anne Frank (By: Johanna Hurwitz)
1989
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The Case of the Vanishing Villain (By: Carol Farley)
1990
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Something Upstairs
1990
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A Haunting in Williamsburg
1990
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Something Upstairs (By: C.S. Adler)
1990
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Ghost Brother (By: C.S. Adler)
1990
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The Best Ever Kids' Book of Lists
1991
74
The Adventures of King Midas
1992
75
A Haunting in Williamsburg (By: Lou Kassem)
1990
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The Best Ever Kids' Book of Lists (By: Eugenie Allen)
1991
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Ask Me Anything About the Presidents
1992
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Ask Me Anything About the Presidents (By: Louis Phillips)
1992
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Tons of Trash
1992
80
The Adventures of King Midas (By: Lynne Reid Banks)
1992
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Tons of Trash (By: Joan Rattner Heilman)
1992
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How to Travel Through Time
1993
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Lucie Babbidge's House
1993
84
Maria, a Christmas Story
1992
85
How to Travel Through Time (By: James M. Deem)
1993
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Beardance
1993
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Lucie Babbidge's House (By: Sylvia Cassedy)
1993
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Christmas Countdown
1993
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Beardance (By: Will Hobbs)
1993
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Miss Yonkers Goes Bonkers
1994
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The Mummy's Curse
1994
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Christmas Countdown (By: Steve Englehart)
1993
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Miss Yonkers Goes Bonkers (By: Mike Thaler)
1994
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Super Snoop Sam Snout and the Case of the Missing Marble
1994
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Main Street
1994
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The Mummy's Curse (By: Daniel Cohen)
1994
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Super Snoop Sam Snout and the Case of the Missing Marble (By: Anne C. Lemieux)
1994
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Comet Luck
1994
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Main Street (By: Susan Kirby)
1994
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Kwanzaa
1995
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Vampire Mom
1995
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Comet Luck (By: Madge Harrah)
1994
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My Own Two Feet
1995
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Ali Baba Bernstein, Lost and Found (By: Johanna Hurwitz)
1995
105
Kwanzaa (By: Mildred Pitts Walter)
1995
106
Spookhouse
1995
107
Harry the Poisonous Centipede
1996
108
Vampire Mom (By: Don Whittington)
1995
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Going for the Gold: Shannon Miller
1996
110
My Own Two Feet (By: Beverly Cleary)
1995
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Four Perfect Pebbles
1996
112
Spookhouse (By: Don Whittington)
1995
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Zombie Queen
1996
114
Harry the Poisonous Centipede (By: Lynne Reid Banks)
1996
115
Freak Show
1996
116
Going for the Gold: Shannon Miller (By: Septima Green)
1996
117
Going to Net
1996
118
Four Perfect Pebbles (By: Lila Perl, Marion Blumenthal Lazan)
1996
119
Zombie Queen (By: Don Whittington)
1996
120
Lasting Echoes
1997
121
Tracks in the Snow
1997
122
Freak Show (By: Don Whittington)
1996
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Painting the Black
1997
124
Going to Net (By: Various Various)
1996
125
Tracks in the Snow (By: Lucy Jane Bledsoe)
1997
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Danger Along the Ohio
1997
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Danger Along the Ohio (By: Patricia Willis)
1997
128
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War
1998
129
Night of the Chupacabras
1998
130
Lasting Echoes (By: Joseph Bruchac)
1997
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Night of the Chupacabras (By: Marie G. Lee)
1998
132
As Ever, Gordy
1998
133
As Ever, Gordy (By: Mary Downing Hahn)
1998
134
Becoming Felix
1998
135
Breakaway
1998
136
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War (By: Anita Lobel)
1998
137
Becoming Felix (By: Nancy Hope Wilson)
1998
138
Mischief, Mad Mary, and Me
1998
139
Breakaway (By: Kimberley Griffiths Little)
1998
140
It's In Your Hands, Daisy P. Duckwitz
1998
141
Leaving Summer
1998
142
Mischief, Mad Mary, and Me (By: Dawn Knight)
1998
143
It's In Your Hands, Daisy P. Duckwitz (By: Jacqueline Shannon)
1998
144
Flea Circus Summer
1998
145
Leaving Summer (By: Donal Harding)
1998
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Calling Me Home
1998
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Flea Circus Summer (By: Cheryl Ware)
1998
148
The Pizza That Time Forgot
1999
149
Love Me, Love My Broccoli
1999
150
Calling Me Home (By: Patricia Hermes)
1998
151
The Pizza That Time Forgot (By: William DeAndrea, Matthew Deandrea)
1999
152
Get on the Net
1999
153
Love Me, Love My Broccoli (By: Julie Anne Peters)
1999
154
Don't Try This at Home!
1999
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Bruce Coville's Shapeshifters
1999
156
Get on the Net (By: Robert Pondiscio)
1999
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A Kids' Guide to America's Bill of Rights
1999
158
Don't Try This at Home! (By: Vicki Cobb)
1999
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Bruce Coville's Alien Visitors
1999
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Bruce Coville's Shapeshifters (By: Bruce Coville)
1999
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Green Mango Magic
1999
162
A Kids' Guide to America's Bill of Rights (By: Kathleen Krull)
1999
163
All the Answers
2000
164
Bruce Coville's Alien Visitors (By: Bruce Coville)