Taffy of Torpedo Junction

Informationen zum Autor The late Nell Wise Wechter, an Outer Banks native, was a widely admired author, storyteller, historian, and journalist. As a schoolteacher near Cape Hatteras during World War II, she could look out her classroom window to see ships being sunk by the Germans. Her story of Taffy was inspired by these real events and the courage of the people who lived through them. Her other books include Swamp Girl , Betsy Dowdy's Ride , and Teach's Light . Klappentext Here is a thrilling adventure story about life on North Carolina's Outer Banks during World War II. Thirteen-year-old Taffy Wills is an independent and high-spirited girl who lives with her grandfather on Hatteras Island. With her Banks pony, Sailor, and her boxer puppy, Brandy, she roams the island and finds a mystery to solve. What's going on at the old house in Buxton Woods? Why are the people who live in it so unfriendly and secretive? And what is that eerie light just offshore? What Taffy discovers is a ring of Nazi spies, and it is up to her to help the Coast Guard capture them. Partly based on a true story, the book is a tribute to the courage of the people who lived near "Torpedo Junction", a real place just off Cape Hatteras where German U-boats sank more than sixty American ships in just six months in 1942.

Product details

• Authors: Nell Wise Wechter, Nell Wise Simpson Wechter, Nell Wise/ Sparks Wechter, Nell Wise Wetcher
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 8 to 12
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.1996
• EAN: 9780807846193
• ISBN: 978-0-8078-4619-3
• No. of pages: 134
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Chapel Hill Books; Chapel Hill Books
• Subject: Children's and young people's books