Theodore Taylor (1921-2006) was an American author of young adult fiction. He started writing when he was 13, covering local high school sports events. He served as a merchant mariner during World War II and also served during the Korean War. Some of his best known work included The Cay, its sequel-prequel Timothy of the Cay, The Weirdo, Ice Drift, The Boy, Sniper and Rogue Wave. His famous novel The Cay took only three weeks to write.

Theodore Taylor became a published author in 1968 with the novel The Body Trade. His final novel was Billy the Kid, published in 2005. Below is a list of Theodore Taylor’s books in order of when they were originally released (as well as in chronological order):

Publication Order of Cape Hatteras Trilogy Books

Teetoncey(1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Teetoncey and Ben O'Neal(1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Odyssey of Ben O'Neal(1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of The Cay Books

The Cay(1969)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Timothy of the Cay(1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Outer Banks Books

Stranger from the Sea(1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Box of Treasures(1975)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Into the Wind(1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Tuck Books

Tuck Triumphant(1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

The Body Trade(1968)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rebellion Town, Williamsburg, 1776(1973)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Children's War(1974)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sweet Friday Island(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Walking Up a Rainbow(1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Maldonado Miracle(1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Stalker(1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Hostage(1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sniper(1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Monocolo(1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Weirdo(1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
To Kill the Leopard(1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Bomb(1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Sailor Returns(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Boy Who Could Fly Without a Motor(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lord of the Kill(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ice Drift(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Billy the Kid(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Picture Books

Hello, Arctic!(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Collections

Rogue Wave(1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

The Magnificent Mitscher(1954)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Air Raid--Pearl Harbor!(1971)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Battle in the Arctic Sea(1976)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Shepherd Watches, a Shepherd Sings (With: Louis Irigaray)(1977)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Jule(1979)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Battle Off Midway Island(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Battle in the English Channel(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rocket Island(1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Cats of Shambala(1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
H. M. S. Hood Vs. Bismarck(1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Flight of Jesse Leroy Brown(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Making Love to Typewriters(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Avon Camelot Books

Lottie & Lisa (By: Erich Kastner)(1952)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Summerdog Comes Home (By: George Albert Zabriskie)(1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Hippopotamus Ate the Teacher (By: Mike Thaler)(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Baseball Fever (By: Ray Cruz,Johanna Hurwitz)(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Trouble with Tuck(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Irma and Jerry (By: George Selden)(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Basic Fun (By: Susan Drake Lipscomb,Margaret Ann Zusnich)(1982)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Esp McGee (By: Edward Packard)(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tunnel to Yesterday (By: Jerome Beatty Jr.)(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Bet You Can! Science Possibilities to Fool You (By: Vicki Cobb)(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rich Mitch (By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat)(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Summerdog (By: Thom Roberts)(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Bet You Can't! (By: Kathy Darling,Vicki Cobb)(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Earth is Flat--And Other Great Mistakes (By: Laurence Pringle)(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Behind the Attic Wall (By: Sylvia Cassedy)(1983)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Peggy Fleming: Portrait of an Iceskater (By: Bruce Curtis,Stephanie Young)(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Gremlins (By: George Gipe)(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maura's Angel (By: Lynne Reid Banks)(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Jellyfish Season (By: Mary Downing Hahn)(1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Book 1 (By: Andrew Glass,Catherine Edwards Sadler)(1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Get Rich Mitch! (By: Marjorie Weinman Sharmat)(1985)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mystery of the Melted Diamonds (By: Carol Farley)(1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ukrainian Egg Mystery (By: George E. Stanley)(1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Moroccan Mystery (By: Thomas McKean)(1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ralph Fozbek and the Amazing Black Hole Patrol (By: Steve Senn)(1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Flash Fry, Private Eye (By: Tim Schoch)(1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Anti-Peggy Plot (By: Thomas McKean)(1986)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Best Joke Book for Kids 2 (By: Joan Eckstein)(1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Codebreaker Kids (By: George E. Stanley)(1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Summer Camp Creeps (By: Tim Schoch)(1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Case of the Lost Look-Alike (By: Carol Farley)(1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Breezy (By: Leda Blumberg)(1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Racing the Sun (By: Paul Pitts)(1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Anne Frank (By: Johanna Hurwitz)(1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Case of the Vanishing Villain (By: Carol Farley)(1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Something Upstairs (By: C.S. Adler)(1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ghost Brother (By: C.S. Adler)(1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Haunting in Williamsburg (By: Lou Kassem)(1990)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Best Ever Kids' Book of Lists (By: Eugenie Allen)(1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ask Me Anything About the Presidents (By: Louis Phillips)(1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Adventures of King Midas (By: Lynne Reid Banks)(1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tons of Trash (By: Joan Rattner Heilman)(1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Maria, a Christmas Story(1992)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
How to Travel Through Time (By: James M. Deem)(1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lucie Babbidge's House (By: Sylvia Cassedy)(1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Beardance (By: Will Hobbs)(1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Christmas Countdown (By: Steve Englehart)(1993)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Miss Yonkers Goes Bonkers (By: Mike Thaler)(1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Mummy's Curse (By: Daniel Cohen)(1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lemonade Days (By: Susan Kirby)(1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Super Snoop Sam Snout and the Case of the Missing Marble (By: Anne C. Lemieux)(1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Main Street (By: Susan Kirby)(1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Comet Luck (By: Madge Harrah)(1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Home Front Hero (By: Susan Kirby)(1994)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ali Baba Bernstein, Lost and Found (By: Johanna Hurwitz)(1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Kwanzaa (By: Mildred Pitts Walter)(1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Goodbye, Desert Rose (By: Susan Kirby)(1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Vampire Mom (By: Don Whittington)(1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
My Own Two Feet (By: Beverly Cleary)(1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Spookhouse (By: Don Whittington)(1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Harry the Poisonous Centipede (By: Lynne Reid Banks)(1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Going for the Gold: Shannon Miller (By: Septima Green)(1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Four Perfect Pebbles (By: Lila Perl,Marion Blumenthal Lazan)(1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Zombie Queen (By: Don Whittington)(1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Freak Show (By: Don Whittington)(1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Going to Net (By: Various)(1996)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Tracks in the Snow (By: Lucy Jane Bledsoe)(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Danger Along the Ohio (By: Patricia Willis)(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lasting Echoes (By: Joseph Bruchac)(1997)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Night of the Chupacabras (By: Marie G. Lee)(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
As Ever, Gordy (By: Mary Downing Hahn)(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War (By: Anita Lobel)(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Becoming Felix (By: Nancy Hope Wilson)(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Breakaway (By: Kimberley Griffiths Little)(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mischief, Mad Mary, and Me (By: Dawn Knight)(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
It's In Your Hands, Daisy P. Duckwitz (By: Jacqueline Shannon)(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Leaving Summer (By: Donal Harding)(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Flea Circus Summer (By: Cheryl Ware)(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Calling Me Home (By: Patricia Hermes)(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Pizza That Time Forgot (By: William DeAndrea,Matthew Deandrea)(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Love Me, Love My Broccoli (By: Julie Anne Peters)(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Get on the Net (By: Robert Pondiscio)(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Don't Try This at Home! (By: Vicki Cobb)(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Bruce Coville's Shapeshifters (By: Bruce Coville)(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Kids' Guide to America's Bill of Rights (By: Kathleen Krull)(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Bruce Coville's Alien Visitors (By: Bruce Coville)(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Green Mango Magic (By: Sylvie Hossack)(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
All the Answers (By: Anne C. Lemieux)(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Can of Worms (By: Kathy MacKel)(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Orphan Journey Home (By: Liza Ketchum)(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Bearstone (By: Will Hobbs)(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Alice-by-Accident (By: Lynne Reid Banks)(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Death at Devil's Bridge (By: Cynthia C. DeFelice)(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Alice By Accident (By: Lynne Reid Banks)(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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