Three Times Lucky / Sheila Turnage / 312 pages

This is totally a charming and entertaining book with very memorable characters.  Meet Moses LoBeau, up and coming 6th grader, whose story is that she arrived in Tupelo, NC as an infant floating on a billboard in the midst of a hurricane.  She is taken in by her rescuer the mysterious Colonel who has amnesia and the flamboyant Miss Lana who runs the local café which is the center of the small community.  With a murder mystery, the poignancy of a missing mother, a hurricane, and the very humorous Mo LoBeau and her cadre of friends and neighbors, this is a wonderful book for grades 4-7.  It would be a great choice for a mother-daughter discussion group.