New Releases by Theodore Taylor

On December 7, 1941, Americans were shocked to hear that Pearl Harbor had been devastated by a Japanese air raid. Theodore Taylor looks at Japanese intelligence work and at the American anti-intelligence efforts, which were often careless or ineffective. But once the raid was launched, bravery abounded--on both sides.

Fourteen-year-old Helen, her blind dog Friar Tuck, and her family face some dramatic challenges when they discover that the Korean boy they have adopted is deaf. Sequel to The Trouble with Tuck.

Fifteen-year-old Ben must cope alone when a mysterious sniper begins shooting the big cats in his family''s private zoological preserve.

In a chilling tale of revenge and retribution, a father tracks the man responsible for the sexual abuse and murder of his daughter, a criminal protected by diplomatic immunity, family power and influence, and his own crafty ingenuity

When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, an adolescent white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old black man are stranded on a tiny Caribbean island where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.

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.

The riveting story of how actress Tippi Hedren, in the process of making a feature film as a plea to save wildlife, came to share her home and land with some 100 lions, tigers, leopards, cheetahs, and cougars.

A unique collection of time standards, manufacturing methods, and overall `rules of thumb'' used for cost-estimating electronic equipment and systems. As the only book available on the subject, it covers all operations from machining and sheet metal fabrication through wiring, circuit board assembly, electrical testing, and packaging. In addition, it describes the fields of production schedule determination, personnel facility planning ratios, and concept estimating.

The subject of this book is the sinking of the battleship Bismarck by the English navy.

An account of the June, 1942, air battle between American and Japanese forces which proved a decisive defeat for the Japanese and the turning point of the war in the Pacific.

Reminiscences of the author''s youth as he assists his father, a Basque immigrant to California, with their sheep business.