Sheila Turnage

Sheila Turnage is from eastern North Carolina, just like Miss Moses LoBeau, the protagonist from the Mo & Dale Mysteries series that began with Three Times Lucky. Three Times Lucky is a Newbery Honor Book, a New York Times bestseller, an E. B. White Read-Aloud Honor Book, and an Edgar Award finalist. It has been nominated for nineteen state awards, and has been licensed in six countries. Her follow-up book, The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing, also a New York Times bestseller, received five starred reviews, was a SIBA Winter 2014 Okra Pick, a Junior Library Guild selection and was nominated for several state awards, including the Texas Bluebonnet Master List. Mo’s third mystery, The Odds of Getting Even, was a Junior Library Guild selection, and won the AAUW-NC Juvenile Book Award in 2017. The Law of Finders Keepers comes out in September 2018.