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Three Times Lucky (Mo & Dale Mysteries)

Three Times Lucky (Mo & Dale Mysteries)

by SheilaTurnage (Author)

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Synopsis

Rising sixth grader Miss Moses LoBeau lives in the small town of Tupelo Landing, NC, where everyone's business is fair game and no secret is sacred. She washed ashore in a hurricane eleven years ago, and she's been making waves ever since. Although Mo hopes someday to find her upstream mother, she's found a home with the Colonel - a cafe owner with a forgotten past of his own - and Miss Lana, the fabulous cafe hostess. She will protect those she loves with every bit of her strong will and tough attitude. So when a lawman comes to town asking about a murder, Mo and her best friend, Dale Earnhardt Johnson lll, set out to uncover the truth in hopes of saving the only family Mo has ever known.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 336
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Puffin
Published: 13 Jul 2015
ISBN 10: 0142426059
ISBN 13: 9780142426050
Book Overview: A hilarious Southern debut with the kind of characters you meet once in a lifetime.

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Praise for Three Times Lucky

* A wickedly awesome tale...Mo LoBeau is destined to become a standout character in children's fiction. --Kirkus Reviews, starred review

* Turnage's lively novel features a distinctive voice and a community of idiosyncratic characters. --Booklist, starred review

* Here is a writer who has never met a metaphor or simile she couldn't put to good use. --Publishers Weekly, starred review

Spunky and hilarious, eleven-year-old Mo LoBeau is one of my newest favorite heroines. Three Times Lucky will make everyone want to ride his or her own hurricane all the way to Tupelo Landing, just to join the fun. --Ingrid Law, Newbery Honor-winning author of Savvy

A dandy mystery...Humor sweetens the mix, making Tupelo Landing a pleasant place to stay for a spell. --Horn Book

Mo's deadpan colloquial narration is robust and often humorous...Mystery lovers and fans of titles like Di Camillo's Because of Winn-Dixie or Klise's Grounded will definitely want to set a spell with Mo. --Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

The heroine of Sheila Turnage's Three Times Lucky is so plucky that young readers may wish she lived next door. --Wall Street Journal

An irresistible Southern narrator--a literary descendant of Scout Finch of To Kill a Mockingbird. --Top 12 Children's books of 2012, Newsday

This book will leave readers hoping for more books about Mo and her gang. --School Library Journal

Author Bio
Sheila Turnage grew up on a farm in eastern North Carolina. A graduate of East Carolina University, she authored two nonfiction books and one picture book before she started writing about Mo LoBeau and Dale. Three Times Lucky is a Newbery Honor book, a New York Times bestseller, an Edgar Award Finalist, an E. B. White Read-Aloud Honor book, and was included on seven Best Book of the Year lists. The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing, the follow-up to Three Times Lucky, has so far garnered five starred reviews. Today Sheila lives on a farm with her husband, a smart dog, a dozen chickens, and a flock of guineas.