Sheila Turnage Books in Order
Sheila Turnage has written 8 books, published between 1984 and 2022. The first book is Trout the Magnificent (1984) and the newest is Island of Spies (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 8
- Published
- 1984–2022
- Pages on record
- 2,116 in 7 of 8 books
- Reading time
- 35–53 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,116 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 7 of 8 titles with a page count on record.
Sheila Turnage is an American author whose best known book is Three Times Lucky (2012), a children's novel that took a Newbery Honor in 2013. Eight books are catalogued from Trout the Magnificent (1984) to Island of Spies (2022). The Mo & Dale Mysteries follow Three Times Lucky with The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing (2014), The Odds of Getting Even (2015) and The Law of Finders Keepers (2018). Guidebooks sit early in the list, in Compass Guide to North Carolina (1998) and Haunted Inns of the Southeast (2001). Community life, ghosts, foundlings and mystery and detective stories are the subject headings.
How many Sheila Turnage books are there?
Sheila Turnage has 8 books, released between 1984 and 2022. 4 of them belong to the Mo & Dale Mysteries series.
Sheila Turnage Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 8 Sheila Turnage books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 11984481/4
- 2Compass Guide to North Carolina1998 · confirmed 1/41998–1/4
- 3Haunted Inns of the Southeast2001 · 228 pages · confirmed 1/420012281/4
- 420123361/4
- 520143681/4
- 620153681/4
- 720183841/4
- 8Island of Spies2022 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/420223841/4
Sheila Turnage books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Mo & Dale Mysteries in order
4 booksChapter in order
1 bookStandalone books
3 books3 Sheila Turnage titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Sheila Turnage books in order?
You only need to read Sheila Turnage books in order within the Mo & Dale Mysteries series, which holds 4 of the 8 Sheila Turnage books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Sheila Turnage
Start with Trout the Magnificent (1984), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Sheila Turnage book?
Island of Spies (2022) is the newest Sheila Turnage book released so far.
Is there a new Sheila Turnage book coming?
No next Sheila Turnage book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Sheila Turnage at a glance
- Paused
- No new Sheila Turnage title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
- Release pace
- Sheila Turnage books have appeared about one every 5 years on average.
- Length
- 2,116 pages across the 7 of 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 368 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Sheila Turnage books, 4 of 8, were published in the 2010s.
What the Sheila Turnage books are about
7 of the 8 Sheila Turnage books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: community life is tagged on 4 of 7. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Community life 4 of 7 books
- Children's fiction 3 of 7 books
- Mystery & detective 3 of 7 books
- Foundlings 2 of 7 books
- Ghosts 2 of 7 books
- Guidebooks 2 of 7 books
- Identity 2 of 7 books