The Weirdo
by Theodore Taylor
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Seventeen-year-old Chip Clewt fights to save the black bears in the Powhaten National Wildlife Refuge.Tags
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Pretty good YA novel about swamp area in Virginia/NC border area and preserving bears.
it was pretty good but i got bored with all the bvear tracking stuff in book 2
This ecology-themed murder mystery is a good choice for advanced students as an ecology- related novel study in life science.
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Author Theodore Taylor was born in Statesville, North Carolina on June 23, 1921. At the age of seventeen, he became a copyboy at the Washington, D. C. Daily News and was writing radio network sports for NBC in New York two years later. During World War II, he joined the merchant marines and earned a commission as an ensign in the U. S. Navy. He show more was recalled to active duty during the Korean War. In 1955, he became a press agent for Paramount Pictures and later became a story editor and an associate producer. He has written over fifty fiction and non-fiction books for young adults and adults. He has received numerous awards for his works including the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award for The Cay, the 1992 Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Young Adult Mystery for The Weirdo, and the 1996 Scott O'Dell Award for historical fiction for The Bomb. He died on October 26, 2006. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1991
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- 258
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- 125,315
- Reviews
- 3
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- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 21
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