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Sheila Turnage (Jacksonville, North Carolina) is a poet, journalist, and children's literature author known for her profound kid mystery novels. She was awarded the Newbery Medal in 2013 for her first book Three Times Lucky. She has been awarded an E. B. White Read-Aloud Honor Book, and has been an Edgar Award finalist.

Biography
Sheila grew up on her family’s tobacco farm in eastern North Carolina in Jacksonville. A native North Carolinian, she’s spent most of her life surrounded by the poetry and humor of rural NC. All of her mystery's share some relatedness with her home state, as well as her characters. She earned a Bachelor's Degree in cultural anthropology from East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. The studies of people in society allows Turnage to study realities which she feels is important to learn about and think about when writing. Before writing kid's mystery novels, Turnage was a freelance writer and journalist and has published articles for Southern Living, Our State, American Heritage and The Lincoln Center for the Preforming Arts. Her poetry has also been published by the International Poetry Review, the North Carolina Poetry Society, The Barbaric YAWP, and other sites and magazines. She is also a member of the creative writing class at Pitt Community College in Winterville, North Carolina.

Accomplishes
Her first children's novel, Three Times Lucky, is a New York Times Best Seller, Newbery Medal winner, and has been nominated for six state awards along with The Ghost of Tupelo Landing. Both books were the kick start to her children's mystery novels which included the tales of the Desperado Detectives that takes place in her hometown. Her latest addition to the Desperdo Detectives tales, the Odds of Getting Even, has won the American Association of University Women NC's Award for Juvenile Literature in 2016. In addition to being a children's mystery novelist Turnage has also authored a dark and horror novel Haunted Inns of the Southeast as well as a guide for tourist visiting North Carolina called Compass American Guide: North Carolina. Turnage also authored a children's tale about a fish that wants to fly called Trout the Magnificent.

Present
Sheila Turnage still lives on her family's farm with her husband, a blind dog and an ill-tempered cat. They also share their home with a flock of chickens, a raucous scattering of guineas, passing deer, squirrels and turkeys, and other family pets. She enjoys the sun rising on an early morning. She admits to loving the sound and color of a new day. Turnage enjoys visiting schools and libraries along the East coast as well as book clubs. Her mystery novels are the talk with children aging from 8 to 13. Three Times Lucky has captured the adventurous and inner detective in readers. The tale has advanced to a collection of the exciting mysteries of Mo and Dale's adventures. After the release of the third part of the series, The Odds of Getting Even, Turnage is now writing the fourth addition, which has yet be be named.

Works
Three Times Lucky, The Walrus Group, 2013, ISBN: 9780142426050

The Ghost of Tupelo Landing, Puffin Books, 2014 ISBN: 9780803736719

The Odds of Getting Even, Kathy Dawson, 2015 ISBN: 9780803739611

Haunted Inns of the Southeast, John F. Blair, 2001, ISBN: 9780895872340

Compass American Guide: North Carolina 5th Edition, 2006, ISBN-13: 978-0679005087

Trout the Magnificent, Harcourt Children's Books, 1984, ISBN: 9780152909628