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 and a half 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 were 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.

Contents

[edit] Books

[edit] Mandie Series

Published by Bethany House publishers.

Main Series

  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 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

The Young Mandie series:

  1. Who's Mandie (1999)
  2. The New Girl
  3. The Mystery at Miss Abigail's
  4. Merry Christmas From Mandie
  5. The Talking Snowman
  6. The Secret in the Woods
  7. The Missing Book
  8. The Haunted Shop

Special Mandie books:

  • Mandie and Mollie & The Angel's Visit (2002)
  • Mandie's Cookbook
  • Mandie and Joe's Christmas Surprise
  • Mandie Datebook
  • Mandie Diary

Mandie's College Years:

  1. New Horizons (2006)

[edit] Janie and Tom Mystery Series

  1. Mysterious Teacher (2003)
  2. Secret Garden (2003)

[edit] Lily Adventures

  1. Secret Money
  2. Suspicious Identity
  3. Accidental Dreams
  4. Mysterious Revelations

Sadly, the books "Accidental Dreams" and "Mysterious Revelation" were never published. This is totally out of the control of the author who does not have the copyrite to do so.

[edit] Film

A movie based on the Mandie series is set to be released in Spring 2008. The movie titled after the first book of the series Mandie and the Secret Tunnel, has a cast that includes Lexi Johnson (as Mandie), Dean Jones, and William Yelton. The rights to produce a film, based on Mandie and the Secret Tunnel, are currently owned by Kalon Media.