Nell Wise Wechter

Taffy of Torpedo Junction

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of North Carolina Press
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Altersempfehlung: 8 bis 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 191mm x 129mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 177g
• ISBN-13: 9780807846193
• ISBN-10: 0807846198
• Artikelnr.: 21721378

Autorenporträt

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.