Three Times Lucky Award-winning by Sheila Turnage (author) (US edition)

A coming-of-age story with a murder mystery mixed in. It stars a girl found after a hurricane, and it’s as finger-licking tasty as books come. Eleven years ago, a hurricane washed a lost baby ashore in the small town of Tulepo Landing. That baby is now sixth-grader Miss Moses LoBeau, who has been making waves in the town ever since. Although Mo hopes someday to find her ‘upstream mother’, she’s found a home with the Colonel – a café owner – and Miss Lana, the fabulous café hostess. Tough-cookie Mo will protect her beloved new family with everything she’s got. So when a lawman comes to town asking about a murder, Mo and her best friend set out to find the truth. Can they save the only family Mo has ever known?