<div>This YA Western adventure imagines an alternate fate for the famous outlaw: &ldquo;Readers will hang on anxiously and eagerly as the plot gallops [forward]&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly, starred review). William H. Bonney Jr., better known as Billy the Kid, isn&#39;t afraid to take risks. But when a train passenger recognizes him in the middle of a heist near his hometown, it seems like the odds have finally caught up with him. Fed up with Billy&#39;s bad ways, The Law sends its best man to bring him in: Sheriff Willis Monroe, Billy&#39;s own cousin and former best friend. But Willis isn&#39;t the only one on Billy&#39;s tail. The Kid&#39;s back-stabbing partners are hunting him, too&mdash;and a conniving posse wants Billy (and the sheriff!) dead. This fictional tale of real-life legend Billy the Kid imagines William Bonney&#39;s fate had his life of crime taken a very different turn. This edition includes an author&#39;s note about the real Billy the Kid.</div>

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Billy the Kid

<div>A reclusive teenager finds love while searching for his friend&rsquo;s killer in this Edgar Award-winning YA mystery&mdash;&ldquo;timely and compelling&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). Seventeen-year-old Chip Clewt is known to most people simply as &ldquo;the weirdo.&rdquo; After barely surviving a terrible fire, he&rsquo;s taken to living like a hermit in the Powhatan Swamp, a National Wildlife Refuge in South Carolina. These days, Chip works for the Refuge and has little contact with anyone besides his boss, Tom. But now his hideaway is at the center of a heated controversy. As the hunting ban on the Powhatan is about to expire, environmentalists want to protect the wildlife while eager hunters are oiling their guns. And when Tom disappears, Chip suspects that the conflict has turned deadly. While his new friend Samantha inspires Chip to reconnect, the pair must also connect the dots of a puzzling and dangerous mystery before it&rsquo;s too late. Includes a reader&#39;s guide.</div>

The Weirdo

<div>&ldquo;First-class . . . more than the biography of a great aviator and military leader. It also is a detailed and lively history of naval aviation.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Air Adm. Marc Mitscher is a legend in military circles for developing an entirely new concept of war at sea. His skills as both a carrier tactician and genius for leading men rank him with the best World War II combat commanders. However, because Mitscher shunned publicity and destroyed his private papers shortly before his death in 1947, his accomplishments are not widely known. In this outstanding biography, Theodore Taylor traces the aviator&rsquo;s brilliant career from its beginnings and makes clear the major role played by the admiral in developing the Navy&rsquo;s air program, providing a lively and detailed history of the progress of naval aviation. &ldquo;The likable personality and day by day achievements of Mitscher shine through to lift this above the run of the mill military biography.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

The Magnificent Mitscher

<div>An account of the WWII sea battle by the author of The Cay: &ldquo;The story of the Bismarck is one of exciting high adventure, and [Taylor] captures it nicely.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times From the award-winning author, this is a compelling history of the sinking of British battlecruiser H.M.S. Hood in the cold waters of the North Atlantic in 1941. It was a great loss to the Royal Navy and resulted in the deaths of more than fourteen hundred sailors. Soon the Allies were in hot pursuit of the Bismarck, the German fleet&rsquo;s biggest and most fearsome ship. The Nazi battleship would meet its end just days after it sank the Hood&mdash;and this book tells the riveting story of this deadly confrontation at sea.</div>

H.M.S. Hood vs. Bismarck

<div>This biography of America&rsquo;s first African American naval aviator is a &ldquo;compelling portrait of a quiet hero [and] the racial climate between 1926 and 1959&rdquo; (Booklist). &ldquo;In the late 1940s, when every aspiring black pilot had heard of the army&rsquo;s Tuskegee program, Jesse Leroy Brown set his sights on becoming a navy aviator. An outstanding student and top athlete, the 17-year-old&rsquo;s ambition was met with a combination of incredulity and resistance. Yet, at a time when Jim Crow laws were rampant, Brown managed to break the color barrier to become the first black U.S. Navy pilot. Taylor puts his considerable narrative skills to good use in tracing Brown&rsquo;s path from his youth in poverty-stricken Palmer&rsquo;s Crossing, Miss., to his eventual induction into the heady and dangerous world of carrier aviation. Taylor based much of his research on interviews with those who knew Brown and on personal letters from more than a half-century ago [and] doesn&#39;t skimp on the indignities Brown suffered. . . . An engaging and intimate glimpse of a young pioneer who desperately wanted to earn his aviator&rsquo;s wings.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;More than a biography, this is a thrilling story of naval aviation and combat.&rdquo; &mdash;School Library Journal</div>

The Flight of Jesse Leroy Brown

<div>&ldquo;A high-impact techno-thriller [that] brings readers into the heart of WWII&rsquo;s Battle of the Atlantic . . . To Kill the Leopard is a winner.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly The U-boat under Horst Kammerer&rsquo;s command bears a leopard insignia, and Kammerer is indeed a feral hunter as he torpedoes Sully Jordan&rsquo;s oil tanker. The merchant marine escapes with his life&mdash;only to encounter Kammerer again a month after Pearl Harbor. After Jordan loses yet another ship to the German captain, he boards a Q-ship&mdash;a decoy packed with weapons&mdash;with the intention of becoming predator instead of prey . . . &ldquo;The novel sustains interest from first page to last with an exciting story line that climaxes in an enthralling final duel.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly &ldquo;Realistic submarine suspense . . . Leaps from scenes aboard a Nazi U-boat to scenes on freighters sailed by American merchant mariner Sully Jordan to scenes in Lorient, France, where the Resistance works against the Occupation.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews</div>

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Books By Theodore Taylor (6 Books)

Billy the Kid

The Weirdo

The Magnificent Mitscher

H.M.S. Hood vs. Bismarck

The Flight of Jesse Leroy Brown

To Kill the Leopard

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