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Rogue Wave

And Other Red-Blooded Sea Stories

Rogue Wave( )
Author: Taylor, Theodore
Taylor, Theodore
ISBN:978-0-15-201408-7
Publication Date:Oct 1996
Publisher:Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $16.00
Book Description:

This riveting collection of sea stories spans the oceans of the world and the decades of the twentieth century. Full of action and adventure, these page-turning stories offer a compelling portrait of the dangers, the challenges, and the lessons of life at sea. “Nobody writes sea stories like Taylor, and this collection of eight tales should satisfy his many fans.”--School Library Journal

Book Details
Pages:192
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Short Stories
Juvenile Fiction / Action & Adventure / General
Fiction / Sea Stories
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.5 x 8.25 x 0.83 Inches
Book Weight:0.814 Pounds
Author Biography
Taylor, Theodore (Author)
Author Theodore Taylor was born in Statesville, North Carolina on June 23, 1921. At the age of seventeen, he became a copyboy at the Washington, D. C. Daily News and was writing radio network sports for NBC in New York two years later. During World War II, he joined the merchant marines and earned a commission as an ensign in the U. S. Navy. He was recalled to active duty during the Korean War. In 1955, he became a press agent for Paramount Pictures and later became a story editor and an associate producer.

He has written over fifty fiction and non-fiction books for young adults and adults. He has received numerous awards for his works including the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award for The Cay, the 1992 Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Young Adult Mystery for The Weirdo, and the 1996 Scott O'Dell Award for historical fiction for The Bomb. He died on October 26, 2006.

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