Tupelo Landing, North Carolina. Population 148.
Miss Moses LoBeau is a 6th grader. She lives with the Colonel and Miss Lana. They are the closest things to parents that Mo has.
I was born eleven years ago, during one of the meanest hurricanes in history. That night as people slept, they say, the rivers rose like a mutiny and pushed ashore, shouldering houses off foundations, lifting the dead from graves, gulping down lives like fresh-shucked oysters.
Some say I was born unlucky that night. Not me. I say I was three times lucky.
Lucky once when my Upstream Mother tied me to a makeshift raft and sent me swirling downstream to safety. Lucky twice when the Colonel crashed his car and stumbled to the creek just in time to snatch me from the flood. Lucky three times when Miss Lana took me in like I was her own and kept me.
Trouble comes with Detective Joe Starr comes to town. And then Mr. Jesse is murdered. Three Times Lucky tells the story from Mo's point of view of her quirky town as she solves the mystery behind Mr. Jesse's murder.
I loved this book!
Rating: 10 out of 10
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