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Three Times Lucky

Name: Three Times Lucky
Price: 6.99 USD
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Author: Sheila Turnage
ISBN: 9781101575598

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Published on May 10, 2012 | 336 Pages

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Published on May 10, 2012 | 336 Pages

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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.

A Newbery Honor Book
An ALA Notable Book
A Best Book of the Year:
Newsday, Wall Street Journal, James Patterson’s Read Kiddo Read List, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Bookpage
An Edgar Award Nominee
An E.B. White Read-Aloud Honor book
A SIBA young adult award winner
A YALSA Teens’ Top Ten Nominee
A Booklist Top 10 Crime Fiction for Youth
Multiple State Award Lists
Four starred reviews

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

“An irresistible Southern narrator—a literary descendant of Scout Finch of To Kill a Mockingbird.”—Top 12 Children’s books of 2012, Newsday

* “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

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

WINNER E. B. White Honour

WINNER Newbery Honor Book

WINNER 2013 Pennsylvania Keystone to Reading Book Award

WINNER 2013 SIBA Book Award

NOMINEE 2015 Colorado Children’s Book Award

NOMINEE 2013 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Juvenile Novel

NOMINEE 2015 Florida Sunshine State Young Readers Award

NOMINEE 2014 Georgia Children’s Book Award

NOMINEE 2014 Kentucky Bluegrass Award

NOMINEE 2014 Nebraska Golden Sower Award

NOMINEE 2013 Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award

NOMINEE 2013 South Carolina Children’s Book Award

NOMINEE 2013 Vermont Dorothy Canfield Fischer Book Award

NOMINEE 2014 Washington Sasquatch Reading Program

NOMINEE 2014 West Virginia Children’s Book Award

SELECTION 2013 ALA Notable Children’s Book

SELECTION 2014 Arkansas Charlie May Simon Master List

SELECTION 2012 Booklist Children’s Editors’ Choice

SELECTION 2013 Children’s Book Committee at Bank Street College Children’s Book of the Year

SELECTION 2016 Illinois Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Master List

SELECTION 2012 Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year

SELECTION 2012 New York Times Bestseller

SELECTION 2012 Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Book of the Year

FINALIST Edgar Allan Poe Award

HONOR 2013 EB White Read Aloud Award (Association of Booksellers for Children)

ISBN9781101575598

Published onMay 10, 2012

Published byPuffin Books

Pages336

Age Range10 and up

GradeGrade 5 & Up

Reading LevelLexile: 560L

Author

Sheila Turnage

Growing up in eastern North Carolina, Sheila Turnage fell in love with Hatteras Island’s shipwrecks, secret World War II history, and whispered spy stories—which helped inspire her novel Island of Spies. Sheila is the author of the award-winning Mo & Dale mysteries, including Three Times Lucky, a Newbery Honor Book, New York Times bestseller, and Edgar Award finalist; The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing, also a New York Times bestseller and recipient of five starred reviews; and The Odds of Getting Even and The Law of Finders Keepers, both recipients of numerous starred reviews. Sheila is also the author of two nonfiction adult books, a poetry collection, and a picture book, Trout the Magnificent, illustrated by Janet Stevens. She lives on a farm in eastern NC with her husband, a very smart dog, a flock of chickens and guineas, one lonely goose, and a couple of sweet-faced goats. She still loves visiting Hatteras Island.

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