Taylor, Theodore

A young girl trains her blind dog to follow and trust a seeing-eye companion dog.

Examines from both the American and Japanese points of view the political and military events leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor.

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.

Presents eight stories in which apprentice seamen, ships' masters, fishermen, and casual sailors face life-or-death struggles while traveling the oceans of the world.

After the freighter on which Phillip and his mother were traveling from wartime Curacao to the U.S. is torpedoed, the boy finds himself dependent on an old West Indian for survival.

In 1944, when the Americans liberate Bikini Atoll from the Japanese, fourteen-year-old Sorry Rinamu does not realize that in two years he will lead a desperate effort to save his island home from a much more deadly threat.

The further adventures of Ben and Teetoncey as they take to the sea--he, to find his brother, and she to escape a forced return to England.

In 1852, a fourteen-year-old orphan and her elderly guardian, accompanied by a tough drover and his crew, take several thousand sheep from Iowa to California, returning by ship through the Panama Canal, to raise money to save the girl's home from a villainous debt collector.

A twelve-year-old Mexican crosses the border illegally to join his father in California.

Seventeen-year-old Chip Clewt fights to save the black bears in the Powhatan Swamp, a National Wildlife Refuge, in North Carolina.