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Mandie #6
Mandie and the Medicine Man
For children 8-13, mystery adventures set in the North Carolina backwoods at the turn of the century.
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First published April 1, 1986
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About the author
Lois Gladys Leppard
119 books287 followersLois Gladys Leppard was 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. At one time, she and her two sisters, Sybil and Louise, formed a singing group called the Larke Sisters.
There are forty Mandie books in the main series, an eight-book junior series and several other titles. Leppard said that she could write a Mandie book in two weeks, barring any interruptions.
The eponymous heroine lives in North Carolina in the early 1900s, encountering adventure and solving 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 stated that her books contain "nothing occult or vulgar", 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.
Lois Gladys Leppard based some of the incidents in her Mandie books on her mother's experiences growing up in North Carolina. The dedication in the first book is: "For My Mother, Bessie A. Wilson Leppard, and In Memory of Her Sister, Lillie Margaret Ann Wilson Frady, Orphans of North Carolina Who Outgrew the Sufferings of Childhood".
There are forty Mandie books in the main series, an eight-book junior series and several other titles. Leppard said that she could write a Mandie book in two weeks, barring any interruptions.
The eponymous heroine lives in North Carolina in the early 1900s, encountering adventure and solving 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 stated that her books contain "nothing occult or vulgar", 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.
Lois Gladys Leppard based some of the incidents in her Mandie books on her mother's experiences growing up in North Carolina. The dedication in the first book is: "For My Mother, Bessie A. Wilson Leppard, and In Memory of Her Sister, Lillie Margaret Ann Wilson Frady, Orphans of North Carolina Who Outgrew the Sufferings of Childhood".
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November 9, 2017
Well. I just don't understand Tsa'ni. He is mean one moment. Nice the next. Hopefully he stays nice now. I can't remember if he does or not.
July 19, 2024
Not quite as good as the previous entries in the series.
January 8, 2023
I’m torn in rating this. My eight-year-old self (target audience) probably have enjoyed these books. My present self (not target audience) really struggled through this story.
Middle Grade isn’t my preferred audience in general. The writing style & dialogue are very old fashioned and frankly rather stilted and unnatural.
There are some lovely Christian themes & lessons woven in. The mystery/adventure isn’t anything spectacular and a bit far fetched. But, again, for the target audience it would probably be enjoyable. (I remember they were all the rage in our local Christian bookstore when I was growing up, but for some reason I never read them at that time.)
I’ll probably hang onto these books and maybe try to tackle them again when I’m in a different reading mood.
Middle Grade isn’t my preferred audience in general. The writing style & dialogue are very old fashioned and frankly rather stilted and unnatural.
There are some lovely Christian themes & lessons woven in. The mystery/adventure isn’t anything spectacular and a bit far fetched. But, again, for the target audience it would probably be enjoyable. (I remember they were all the rage in our local Christian bookstore when I was growing up, but for some reason I never read them at that time.)
I’ll probably hang onto these books and maybe try to tackle them again when I’m in a different reading mood.
March 8, 2016
{Welcome to Pre-Teen Week! Every quarter we’re going to try to do a full week dedicated to finding great Christian books for girls ages 8/9-12 every week day! This is Day Two of this quarters’!} {Day 1 Here!}
About this book:
“A Cherokee superstition seems to have come back to haunt Mandie and her friends the gold they discovered has been donated to build a new hospital, but something or someone is tearing down the walls as fast as they can be built. The guard posted to watch the site is knocked out, tied up and blindfolded.
Will Mandie be able to find her friend Joe? Will Mandie and Sallie be rescued from their kidnappers? Will Mandie learn her lesson about jumping to conclusions?”
Series: Book #6 in “Mandie” series. (Read the reviews of: #1 Here! #2 Here! #3 Here! #4 Here! And #5 Here!) {There also is the “Young Mandie Mystery” series, (Book #1 review Here and Book #2 review Here!) but they do not connect together well}
Spiritual Content- Hebrews 11:1 at the beginning; Talks about God; ‘H’s are capital when referring to God; Prayers & a Blessing over food; A couple Scriptures are quoted, mentioned, and prayed; a Mention of what the Bible talks about; Uncle Ned refers to Heaven as “happy hunting ground”;
*Note: Mentions of Cherokee gods, curses, spirits, bad luck & a medicine man.
Negative Content- Minor cussing including: a ‘shut up’; April is still mad/rude to Mandie & Celia; Tsa’ni doesn’t like white people and acts out.
Sexual Content- Joe gets jealous when Dimar & Tommy are there as all three boys have crushes on Mandie; A Mention of Joe & Mandie marrying when they’re older.
-Amanda “Mandie” Shaw, age 12
P.O.V. of (mostly) Mandie
Set in 1900
121 pages (also available in a collection with four other Mandie books.)
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Pre Teens- Four Stars
New Teens- Four Stars
Early High School Teens- Four Stars
Older High School Teens- Three Stars
My personal Rating- Three Stars
{Ratings are lowered as ages get higher due to the simple plot.}
This wasn’t my favorite Mandie book, but it was still good. :)
*See my thought on this series versus the younger series, Here!
Link to review:
http://booksforchristiangirls.blogspo...
*BFCG may (Read the review to see) recommend this book by this author. It does not mean I recommend all the books by this author.
About this book:
“A Cherokee superstition seems to have come back to haunt Mandie and her friends the gold they discovered has been donated to build a new hospital, but something or someone is tearing down the walls as fast as they can be built. The guard posted to watch the site is knocked out, tied up and blindfolded.
Will Mandie be able to find her friend Joe? Will Mandie and Sallie be rescued from their kidnappers? Will Mandie learn her lesson about jumping to conclusions?”
Series: Book #6 in “Mandie” series. (Read the reviews of: #1 Here! #2 Here! #3 Here! #4 Here! And #5 Here!) {There also is the “Young Mandie Mystery” series, (Book #1 review Here and Book #2 review Here!) but they do not connect together well}
Spiritual Content- Hebrews 11:1 at the beginning; Talks about God; ‘H’s are capital when referring to God; Prayers & a Blessing over food; A couple Scriptures are quoted, mentioned, and prayed; a Mention of what the Bible talks about; Uncle Ned refers to Heaven as “happy hunting ground”;
*Note: Mentions of Cherokee gods, curses, spirits, bad luck & a medicine man.
Negative Content- Minor cussing including: a ‘shut up’; April is still mad/rude to Mandie & Celia; Tsa’ni doesn’t like white people and acts out.
Sexual Content- Joe gets jealous when Dimar & Tommy are there as all three boys have crushes on Mandie; A Mention of Joe & Mandie marrying when they’re older.
-Amanda “Mandie” Shaw, age 12
P.O.V. of (mostly) Mandie
Set in 1900
121 pages (also available in a collection with four other Mandie books.)
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Pre Teens- Four Stars
New Teens- Four Stars
Early High School Teens- Four Stars
Older High School Teens- Three Stars
My personal Rating- Three Stars
{Ratings are lowered as ages get higher due to the simple plot.}
This wasn’t my favorite Mandie book, but it was still good. :)
*See my thought on this series versus the younger series, Here!
Link to review:
http://booksforchristiangirls.blogspo...
*BFCG may (Read the review to see) recommend this book by this author. It does not mean I recommend all the books by this author.
November 30, 2020
Great mystery series for the mystery reader!
March 16, 2021
I'm on page 19 of 121 of Mandie and the Medicine M: An very Interesting book and can be very controversial at the start, but while you get deeper into the book you can see and understand more things, and personal things about the character and the people around them.. This book also has an Interesting Vocabulary of word's, I've found "Flustered", And "Reprimanded".
June 11, 2020
The Mandie books are fun Christian mysteries for children, but I still love reading them. Even though she doesn't age very quickly and seems to get far too many breaks from school during the year, she's a lot of fun.
October 13, 2011
A great series of books for children/young adults. Often recommended for girls, because the main protagonist is female, these books could still be a good read for boys, too.
December 20, 2010
Very good as always!
July 13, 2019
Title: Mandie and the Medicine Man
Author: Lois Gladys Leppard
Series: Mandie, 6
Format: ebook, bind-up
Length: N/A
Rating: 3 stars
Synopsis: A Cherokee superstition seems to have come back to haunt Mandie and her friends the gold they discovered has been donated to build a new hospital, but something or someone is tearing down the walls as fast as they can be built. The guard posted to watch the site is knocked out, tied up and blindfolded.
Will Mandie be able to find her friend Joe? Will Mandie and Sallie be rescued from their kidnappers? Will Mandie learn her lesson about jumping to conclusions?
Favourite character: Uncle Ned
Least favourite character: Tsa'ni
Mini-review: This was one of the betters. I wasn't a fan of the beginning in which Mandie and Joe talk about everything that's happened between book one and now. I know authors do stuff like that for the readers who haven't picked up the next book in the series for a while or someone starting the series in the middle, but it's just so awkwardly and annoyingly done. It was in a way unneccessary, because Mandie kept talking about it with Sallie. Joe was there, Sallie wasn't. Leave it with the Sallie conversations. It didn't feel realistic.
Mandie and Joe don't feel like they've been written for their ages, they seem to act younger. If you gave me some Mandie scenes and told me she was ten I'd believe you.
My new favourite scene from this series is now Morning Star running towards Tsa'ni with a broom screaming at him in Cherokee.
Fan Cast:
Amanda "Mandie" Shaw - Emma Rayne Lyle
Joe Woodard - Louis Hynes
Dr. Woodard - Gideon Emery
Elizabeth Shaw - Malin Akerman
Uncle Ned Sweetwater - Zahn McClarnon
John Shaw - Robert Downey Jr.
Tsa'ni - Booboo Stewart
Morning Star - Irene Bedard
Author: Lois Gladys Leppard
Series: Mandie, 6
Format: ebook, bind-up
Length: N/A
Rating: 3 stars
Synopsis: A Cherokee superstition seems to have come back to haunt Mandie and her friends the gold they discovered has been donated to build a new hospital, but something or someone is tearing down the walls as fast as they can be built. The guard posted to watch the site is knocked out, tied up and blindfolded.
Will Mandie be able to find her friend Joe? Will Mandie and Sallie be rescued from their kidnappers? Will Mandie learn her lesson about jumping to conclusions?
Favourite character: Uncle Ned
Least favourite character: Tsa'ni
Mini-review: This was one of the betters. I wasn't a fan of the beginning in which Mandie and Joe talk about everything that's happened between book one and now. I know authors do stuff like that for the readers who haven't picked up the next book in the series for a while or someone starting the series in the middle, but it's just so awkwardly and annoyingly done. It was in a way unneccessary, because Mandie kept talking about it with Sallie. Joe was there, Sallie wasn't. Leave it with the Sallie conversations. It didn't feel realistic.
Mandie and Joe don't feel like they've been written for their ages, they seem to act younger. If you gave me some Mandie scenes and told me she was ten I'd believe you.
My new favourite scene from this series is now Morning Star running towards Tsa'ni with a broom screaming at him in Cherokee.
Fan Cast:
Amanda "Mandie" Shaw - Emma Rayne Lyle
Joe Woodard - Louis Hynes
Dr. Woodard - Gideon Emery
Elizabeth Shaw - Malin Akerman
Uncle Ned Sweetwater - Zahn McClarnon
John Shaw - Robert Downey Jr.
Tsa'ni - Booboo Stewart
Morning Star - Irene Bedard
May 16, 2021
New rule: every time Joe or Mandie get kidnapped I take away a star.
Misleading title as the story revolves around the vandal at the hospital and not a medicine man but when semantics.
Once again the adults don’t want the children out of their sight due to danger and then allow a couple of 13-yo boys to be security guards?!?
Once again Snowball is the key to escaping a kidnapping! Gotta get me one of those white cats...
Misleading title as the story revolves around the vandal at the hospital and not a medicine man but when semantics.
Once again the adults don’t want the children out of their sight due to danger and then allow a couple of 13-yo boys to be security guards?!?
Once again Snowball is the key to escaping a kidnapping! Gotta get me one of those white cats...
February 13, 2021
Book six of the Mandie series sees a shorter story and arguably the weakest entry so far.
There is a bit of a formula now, especially near the end, Mandie realising where she went wrong, Ned giving her advice and Mandie seeking forgiveness and pledging to do better.
The good thing is the books are flowing along and in a continuous time line, I hope we see her get to get older as well.
There is a bit of a formula now, especially near the end, Mandie realising where she went wrong, Ned giving her advice and Mandie seeking forgiveness and pledging to do better.
The good thing is the books are flowing along and in a continuous time line, I hope we see her get to get older as well.
March 2, 2022
Someone is tearing down the walls of the hospital that is being built for the Cherokee Nation. When Mandi's friend, Joe, is kidnapped she is seriously upset. She also learns not to be to hasty in judging others.
September 24, 2020
I used to love this series but I never remembered how many of them i read...
April 6, 2024
3 1/2 stars by 9 year old.
September 19, 2012
I admit it: I am reviewing these books years after reading them. However, do not even suggest that I'm no longer qualified, that too many years have passed to remember. My battered and faded copies of these books testify to how many times I read them growing up and plots and entire passages are seared in my memory forever.
Snowball always ran away, Mandie always got in trouble, Uncle Ned always rescued her, and Joe and Tommy bristled at each other. I myself prefered Joe, but Tommy's cosmopolitan airs nearly tipped the balance a time or two. I recall- fondly and as though it were yesterday- my glee when Mandie went off to Europe, my disgust at the new baby, my delight in Mandie's wardrobe of sky blue frocks, my puzzlement at all her near escapes and handy school vacations, my terror during the daring midnight adventures. Ah me, to be young and silly again...
If I had written goodreads reviews at the age of eleven, all Mandie books would've received automatic five-star ratings and gushing descriptions. As an adult, I will honestly give them all three stars, except for my special pets. And if I ever have a little girl, I will buy her the entire set. Oh, and did you know there are more than forty books in the series by now? And I'm guessing Mandie never grows up, either.
Snowball always ran away, Mandie always got in trouble, Uncle Ned always rescued her, and Joe and Tommy bristled at each other. I myself prefered Joe, but Tommy's cosmopolitan airs nearly tipped the balance a time or two. I recall- fondly and as though it were yesterday- my glee when Mandie went off to Europe, my disgust at the new baby, my delight in Mandie's wardrobe of sky blue frocks, my puzzlement at all her near escapes and handy school vacations, my terror during the daring midnight adventures. Ah me, to be young and silly again...
If I had written goodreads reviews at the age of eleven, all Mandie books would've received automatic five-star ratings and gushing descriptions. As an adult, I will honestly give them all three stars, except for my special pets. And if I ever have a little girl, I will buy her the entire set. Oh, and did you know there are more than forty books in the series by now? And I'm guessing Mandie never grows up, either.
June 14, 2014
My favorite part was when mandie solved the mystery. The worst part was when the hospital was getting torn down. My favorite character was mandie. The worst character was the medicine man. Auryn 10 years old, 2014
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March 10, 2008
Cute. All the Mandie books are just very cute and suitable for little girls who like old-fashioned adventure.
May 16, 2008
I loved it when I was 11. I don't know about it now.
July 6, 2011
it was a okay book it could have been beter!!!!!!! in more ways than one!!!!!
July 27, 2012
I liked Joe in this story. And the part where he wakes up from unconsciousness was one of those "Leo Don't..." moments (an inside joke from the 1990 "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" movie)!
August 16, 2022
Enjoyable book, not one of my favorites
August 13, 2019
Loved this one!
January 17, 2019
very good book I liked it a lot
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