Back in print A longtime favorite of several generations of Tar Heels, Taffy of Torpedo Junction is the thrilling adventure story of thirteen-year-old Taffy Willis, who, with the help of her pony and dog, exposes a ring of Nazi spies operating from a secluded house on Hatteras Island, North Carolina, during World War II. For readers of all ages, the book brings to life the dramatic wartime events on the Outer Banks, where German U-boats turned an area around Cape Hatteras into 'Torpedo Junction' by sinking more than sixty American vessels in just a six-month period in 1942. Taffy has been enjoyed by young and old alike since it was first published in 1957.

Taffy of Torpedo Junction (Chapel Hill Books)

Children's Books

Nell Wise Wechter

Literature & Fiction

The University of North Carolina Press

Taffy of Torpedo Junction

John F. Blair

Betsy Dowdy's Ride

A ten-year-old girl tries to prove the existence of a buried treasure from a clue in her great-great-great-grandfather's dying words.

Swamp Girl

Determined to find the source of the fabled light that supposedly guards Blackbeard's treasure, two Outer Banks teenagers suddenly find themselves transported back to 1681 into the life and times of the notorious pirate.

Teach's light

J.F. Blair

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