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Taffy of Torpedo Junction
BY NELL WISE WECHTER

Readers of all ages treasure this story of of life on North Carolina's Outer Banks during World War II. Thirteen-year-old Taffy Willis 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 finds is a ring of Nazi spies, and it's up to her to help the Coast Guard capture them.

Partly based on a true story, Taffy 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 1942.

151 pp., 4 illus.
$9.95 paperback


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