The MO and DALE MYSTERIES!
Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage
Meet Miss Moses LoBeau, rising sixth grader, borderline straight-A student, and natural born detective. Mo looks forward to a lazy summer. She'll take karate with her best friend, Dale Earnhardt Johnson III, continue her search for her long-lost mother, and help out at the café operated by the Colonel and Miss Lana, who took her in when she was a baby.
But when the café's crankiest customer turns up dead and a city-slick lawman comes to town, Mo's life in Tupelo Landing turns upside down. Mo and Dale set out to solve the murder of a lifetime... and solve some of the mysteries of their own lives in the process.
Extra Credit Idea from Dale: NASCAR Stars
Extra Credit Idea from Mo: Hurricane Floyd
The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing by Sheila Turnage
When Miss Lana buys an inn with a ghost in the fine print, Mo and Dale face a ton of questions: Who's haunting the inn? Why? And will interviewing the ghost land Mo and Dale extra credit?
But the inn may not be the only thing haunted by the past. With help from a slick new kid in town – Harm Crenshaw – Mo and Dale discover truths they never expected.
Extra Credit Idea from Grandmother Miss Lacy: Old timey cameras
Extra Credit Idea from Mo and Dale: Ghosts, True or False?
The Odds of Getting Even by Sheila Turnage
When Mo and Dale head to court as star witnesses against Dale's no-good daddy Macon Johnson, they face trouble. Mo can't wait to testify against Dale's abusive father, but Dale's having second thoughts. The Colonel and Miss Lana predict a slam dunk conviction, but nothing goes as expected.
First a jailbreak. Then a town-wide lockdown. And Dale's brother, Lavender, finds his life hanging in the balance as the Desperado Detectives, with intern Harm Crenshaw, take on a case they'd never want in a million years.
Extra Credit Idea from Dale: Psychic Dogs
The Law of Finders Keepers by Sheila Turnage
Will Mo solve the biggest, most important mystery of her life? Will she find her long-lost mother, who lost her in a hurricane on the day she was born? Mo unearths shocking new clues in the scariest, riskiest, richest case of her life.
Extra Credit Idea from Harm and from Neb, guest character from Island of Spies: Blackbeard the Pirate
Four super-fast, fall-down funny, heart-warming mysteries featuring narrator Miss Moses LoBeau, her best friend Dale Earnhardt Johnson III and their city-click sidekick, Harm Crenshaw. Plus a dog named Queen Elizabeth II and good-looking Lavender Shade Johnson, who Mo plans to go out with in just seven more years. (Not.)
“The heroine of Sheila Turnage's Three Times Lucky is so plucky that young readers may wish she lived next door.” – The Wall Street Journal
Award winning!
Newbery Honor! Edgar Award Finalist! E.B. White Read-Aloud Honor Book! SIBA Best Book of the Year! NY Times Best Book of the Year! Bluebonnet Award Finalist! NC's representative at the Library of Congress bash! Best Juvenile Fiction Award (UUAW/NC)! Four Junior Library Guild selections! Three SIBA Okra Picks! Tons of starred reviews!
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