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Keeper / Kathi Appelt ; illustrations by August Hall.

Appelt, Kathi, 1954- (author.). Hall, August, (illustrator.).

Summary:

On the night of the blue moon when mermaids are said to gather on a sandbar in the Gulf of Mexico, ten-year-old Keeper sets out in a small boat, with her dog BD and a seagull named Captain, determined to find her mother, a mermaid, as Keeper has always believed, who left long ago to return to the sea.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1416950605
  • ISBN: 9781416950608
  • ISBN: 1416950613
  • ISBN: 9781416950615
  • Physical Description: 399 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2010.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Hall, August
Target Audience Note:
9-12.
770L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 5 8 137052.
Lexile 770L
Subject:
Mermaids > Juvenile fiction.
Mothers and daughters > Juvenile fiction.
Sailing > Juvenile fiction.
Sea stories > Juvenile fiction.
Dogs > Juvenile fiction.
Girls > Juvenile fiction.
Girls.
Gulf States > Juvenile fiction.
Genre:
Fiction.
Sea fiction.

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Summary: On the night of the blue moon when mermaids are said to gather on a sandbar in the Gulf of Mexico, ten-year-old Keeper sets out in a small boat, with her dog BD and a seagull named Captain, determined to find her mother, a mermaid, as Keeper has always believed, who left long ago to return to the sea.