Keeper
By: Kathi Appelt ; illustrations by August Hall
Contributors: Hall, August, illustrator
Edition: 1st Atheneum books for Young Readers pbk. ed.
Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9781416950615
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Mermaids; Mothers and daughters; Juvenile fiction; Sea stories; Sailing
Description: 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.
Notes: 770 Lexile.

Grades 4-7.