Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award
2016 · Grades 4-8 · Nominee
About This Book
Meet Miss Moses LoBeau -- rising sixth grader, natural born detective, borderline straight-A student, and goddess of free enterprise. Mo washed ashore in Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, eleven years ago during one of the meanest hurricanes in history, and she's been making waves ever since.
Mo's summer is looking good. She'll take karate with her best friend, Dale Earnhardt Johnson III (whose daddy believes in naming for the famous), and plot against her sworn enemy, Anna Celeste (aka Attila). She'll help out at the cafe run by the Colonel and Miss Lana, and continue her lifelong search for her Upstream Mother.
But when the café's crankiest customer turns up dead and a city-slick lawman shows up asking questions, Mo's summer takes an unexpected turn. With another hurricane bearing down on Tupelo Landing, Mo and Dale set out to save those they love and solve a mystery of epic proportion.
Mo's summer is looking good. She'll take karate with her best friend, Dale Earnhardt Johnson III (whose daddy believes in naming for the famous), and plot against her sworn enemy, Anna Celeste (aka Attila). She'll help out at the cafe run by the Colonel and Miss Lana, and continue her lifelong search for her Upstream Mother.
But when the café's crankiest customer turns up dead and a city-slick lawman shows up asking questions, Mo's summer takes an unexpected turn. With another hurricane bearing down on Tupelo Landing, Mo and Dale set out to save those they love and solve a mystery of epic proportion.
Series Placement
Awards
Sunshine State Young Reader's Award
2016 · Grades 3-5 · Nominee
Colorado Children's Book Award
2015 · Junior Novel · Nominee
Georgia Children's Book Award
2015 · Children's Book (Grades 4 - 8) · Nominee
Golden Sower Award
2015 · Intermediate · Nominee
Grand Canyon Reader Award
2015 · Tween · Nominee
Sasquatch Award
2015 · Children/Young Adult · Nominee
Young Reader's Choice Award
2015 · Junior/Grades 4-6 · Nominee
Beehive Award
2014 · Fiction · Nominee
Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award
2014 · Grades 4-6 · Nominee
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award
2014 · Children's · Nominee
Kentucky Bluegrass Award
2014 · Grades 3-5 · Nominee
Keystone to Reading Book Award
2014 · Middle School · Winner
Nene Award
2014 · Children's Fiction · Nominee
North Carolina Children's Book Award
2014 · Junior Book · Nominee
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award
2014 · Grades 3-6 · Nominee
Rhode Island Children's Book Award
2014 · Grades 3-6 · Nominee
West Virginia Children's Book Award
2014 · Children's · Nominee
E.B. White Read Aloud Award
2013 · Middle Readers · Finalist
Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize
2013 · Young Adult · Winner
SIBA Book Award
2013 · Young Adult · Winner
South Carolina Childrens, Junior and Young Adult Book Award
2013 · Children's · Nominee
Edgar Allan Poe Award
2013 · Juvenile · Nominee
Newbery Medal
2013 · Children's · Honor Book
