Sheila Turnage
Hardcover | Pages: 312 pages Rating: 4.02 | 21824 Users | 2671 Reviews
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| ISBN: | 0803736703 (ISBN13: 9780803736702) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Mo & Dale Mysteries #1 |
| Setting: | North Carolina(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Newbery Medal Nominee (2013), Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award Nominee for Grades 3-6 (2014), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (2014), Washington State Sasquatch Award Nominee (2015), Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Nominee (2016) |
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Newbery honor winner, New York Times bestseller, Edgar Award Finalist, and E.B. White Read-Aloud Honor book.A hilarious Southern debut with the kind of characters you meet once in a lifetime
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 café owner with a forgotten past of his own--and Miss Lana, the fabulous café 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 III, set out to uncover the truth in hopes of saving the only family Mo has ever known.
Full of wisdom, humor, and grit, this timeless yarn will melt the heart of even the sternest Yankee.
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| Title | : | Three Times Lucky (Mo & Dale Mysteries #1) |
| Author | : | Sheila Turnage |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 312 pages |
| Published | : | May 10th 2012 by Dial Books (first published May 1st 2012) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Childrens. Middle Grade. Fiction. Realistic Fiction. Young Adult |
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Ratings: 4.02 From 21824 Users | 2671 ReviewsCritique Regarding Books Three Times Lucky (Mo & Dale Mysteries #1)
At 10am I opened Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage, and by 4pm that same day I closed Three Times Lucky. And this may sound bad that I am closing the book so soon, but its not. I couldnt put it down for the life of me! Turnage created a town and family of sorts in Tupela Landing, a town only 2 blocks long, but with a story a nations worth. Im not sure were to start with this review. The story goes through sort of a maze of side stories to come up with its final resting place. Each person inTrouble drove into Tupelo Landing in the form of a Chevy Impala and a man named Detective Starr. Mo Lebeau's own detective skills and power of deduction know that car and it's driver are trouble the moment it pulls up to cafe that she works at with her adoptive mother, Miss Lana, and the mysterious "Colonel". Shortly after the car arrives, there is a murder, and Mo sets out with her friend Dale to try to solve the mystery before Detective Starr can.I found this book to be a little
The theme of three times lucky is you need to love your friends and family and they will love you and help you.
Mo LoBeau is a rising sixth-grader in the tiny town of Tupelo Landing, North Carolina. She's a slick talking girl whose best friend is a boy named Dale Earnhardt Johnson III. Mo lives with adoptive parents: Miss Lana, a wig-wearing eccentric cafe owner, and the Colonel, a man with no memory of his past who calls Mo "soldier" (affectionately) and hates lawyers. Mo and Dale decide to become detectives when a local man is murdered and the only suspects seem to be Dale and the Colonel. Sheila
Three Times Lucky tells the story of Mo LoBeau, a sixth grader with no biological mother in sight. She was sent downstream on a raft during a hurricane and adopted by amnesiac Colonel and his girlfriend Miss Lana. Although she spends most of her time thinking about her "Upstream Mother", Mo finds herself with another mystery at hand when local man Mr. Jesse is murdered. Mo and her best friend Dale act as Detectives to try to solve the mystery of the murder, and encounter a hurricane and a
let's just say that i didn't enjoy this. honestly, the plot didn't appeal to me, it didn't draw me in. most of the events were pretty out of sync and a bit of a mess for me??? it's probably my brain hungover from cheesecake but i didn't enjoy
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