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Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage
By Liane Hicks
Three Times Lucky is the story of a young girl named Mo who is growing up in a small southern town in North Carolina. Mo and her best friend Dale fancy themselves detectives and when the tiny town of Tupelo Landing experiences an unsolved mystery, they are on the case! Readers of all ages will enjoy this hilarious and heartwarming whodunnit!
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- THREE TIMES LUCKY by SHEILA TURNAGE
- EXPOSITION / CONFLICT
- RISING ACTION
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- Desperado Detective Agency
- Three Times Lucky is the story of rising 6th grader Mo LoBeau growing up in the tiny town of Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, which has a population of 148! Mo is raised by The Colonel and Miss Lana who own the town's Café where all the residents come to eat and gossip. Her best friend is Dale and the two make a dynamic duo.
- CLIMAX / TURNING POINT
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- Mo was found by The Colonel as a newborn baby floating down the river in a hurricane. He and Miss Lana adopted her but Mo has been searching for her birth mother or "upstream mother" ever since. She writes her letters in journals and sends her messages in bottles. One day, the townsfolk are surprised to see a new face in town at the Café, Detective Joe Starr!
- FALLING ACTION
- Bonjour Mes Amis!
- The town is shocked when the cantankerous old Mr. Jesse, Mo's neighbor, is found murdered. Dale had "borrowed" his boat and becomes a suspect. Mo and Dale form the Desperado Detectives and are on the case! Detective Starr and his Deputy Marla also look for clues and ask questions: like, why did Mr. Jesse give the local church $100 every week? Where did he get that money?
- RESOLUTION
- Soup Du jour Miss Lana's Almost Organic Vegetable
- Mo is used to her adoptive parents taking "3 day rule" breaks from each other but one day when The Colonel is on a break, he calls and sounds strange. Then Mo comes home to find the house turned upside down and Miss Lana gone! The detectives learn that a bank robber named Robert Slate has kidnapped Miss Lana for ransom and is probably Mr. Jesse's murderer! Worried about Miss Lana, Mo stays with Dale, his mother, Miss Rose. Dale's older brother Lavender, who Mo is in love with, also tries to comfort her.
- Deputy Marla is at Dale's house when the Colonel calls to tell Mo that he escaped Slate but Miss Lana is still captive! He tells Mo to find a file in his closet and not to trust anyone! Mo and Dale retrieve the file but find Marla followed them. Mo and Dale outsmart her and make it back to Miss Rose's. Dale's abusive father shows up at his house but just before things get violent, the Colonel arrives and they tie him up. The Colonel, Dale, and Mo drive through the hurricane to Mr. Jesse's house in search of Miss Lana.
- Mo, Dale, and the Colonel capture Slate and find Miss Lana! The money Slate and Marla were looking for was under Mr. Jesse's house. The Colonel, who has had amnesia since he found Mo, reads the file to discover he was Slate's lawyer, which is why Slate thought he had the money. In reality Mr. Jesse had been hiding it all these years and was donating to the church out of guilt. In the end, the Café is reopened, Miss Rose divorces Mr. Macon and, while the mystery of her upstream mother is still unsolved, Mo realizes she's lucky to have a big loving family in Tupelo Landing!
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