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Taffy of Torpedo Junction / by Nell Wise Wechter ; with a new foreword by Bland Simpson ; illustrated by Mary Walker Sparks.

Wechter, Nell Wise. (Author). Sparks, Mary Walker, (illustrator.).

Summary:

In 1942, thirteen-year-old Taffy, living with her grandfather on Hatteras Island, inadvertently helps capture Nazi spies responsible for passing information to offshore German submarines engaged in torpedoing American ships.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0807846198
  • ISBN: 9780807846193
  • Physical Description: xvii, 134 pages : illustrations, map ; 19 cm
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"A Chapel Hill book"--p. facing title page.
Target Audience Note:
Ages 8-14.
740L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 4.7 4 15101.

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Subject:
World War, 1939-1945 > North Carolina > Outer Banks > Juvenile fiction.
Islands > Juvenile fiction.
Outer Banks (N.C.) > Juvenile fiction.
Hatteras Island (N.C.) > Juvenile fiction.
North Carolina > Juvenile fiction.
Genre:
Spy fiction.

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  • 52 of 56 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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