Lois Gladys Leppard

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Lois Gladys Leppard is the author of The Mandie Series of children's novels. Leppard wrote her first Mandie story when she was only eleven years old, but did not become a professional author until she was an adult. Leppard has also worked as a professional singer, actress, and playwright. [1] She studied at the New York School of Music and the Voice Beautiful Institute in New York. At one time, she and her two sisters, Sybil and Louise, formed a singing group called the Larke Sisters.

As of 2004 there are forty Mandie books. The eponymous heroine lives in North Carolina in the early 1900s and encounters adventure and solves mysteries with help from her friends, family, and pet cat Snowball. These young reader novels are meant to teach morals as well as be fun and captivating stories to read. Leppard promises that her books contain "nothing occult or vulgar" [2], and Mandie is depicted as a faithful Christian. The Mandie books often deal with issues of discrimination and prejudice relating to race (particularly with regard to the local Cherokee), class, and disability.

[edit] Mandie Series

Published by Bethany House Publishers.

1. Mandie and the Secret Tunnel
2. Mandie and the Cherokee Legend
3. Mandie and the Ghost Bandits
4. Mandie and the Forbidden Attic
5. Mandie and the Trunk's Secret
6. Mandie and the Medicine Man
7. Mandie and the Charleston Phantom
8. Mandie and the Abandoned Mine
9. Mandie and the Hidden Treasure
10. Mandie and the Mysterious Bells
11. Mandie and the Holiday Surprise
12. Mandie and the Washington Nightmare
13. Mandie and the Midnight Journey
14. Mandie and the Shipboard Mystery
15. Mandie and the Foreign Spies
16. Mandie and the Silent Catacombs
17. Mandie and the Singing Chalet
18. Mandie and the Jumping Juniper
19. Mandie and the Mysterious Fisherman
20. Mandie and the Windmill's Message
21. Mandie and the Fiery Rescue
22. Mandie and the Angel's Secret
23. Mandie and the Dangerous Imposters
24. Mandie and the Invisible Troublemaker
25. Mandie and the Her Missing Kin
26. Mandie and the Schoolhouse's Secret
27. Mandie and the Courtroom Battle
28. Mandie and the Jonathan's Predicament
29. Mandie and the Unwanted Gift
30. Mandie and the Long Goodbye
31. Mandie and the Buried Stranger
32. Mandie and the Seaside Rendezvous
33. Mandie and the Dark Alley
34. Mandie and the Tornado
35. Mandie and the Quilt Mystery
36. Mandie and the New York Secret
37. Mandie and the Night Thief
38. Mandie and the Hidden Past
39. Mandie and the Missing Schoolmarm
40. Mandie and the Graduation Mystery