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Keeper  Cover Image Book Book

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

Content descriptions

Target Audience Note:
770L Lexile
Grades 4-7.
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader MG 5.0 8 8 137052
Awards Note:
School Library Journal Best Books, 2010.
School Library Journal's Best Books, 2010.
Subject: Sailing > Juvenile fiction.
Sea stories.
Mermaids > Juvenile fiction.
Mothers and daughters > Juvenile fiction.
Gulf States > Juvenile fiction.
Mother-separated girls > Juvenile fiction.
Determination in girls > Juvenile fiction.
Determination (Personal quality) > Juvenile fiction.
Dogs > Juvenile fiction.
Ten-year-old girls > Juvenile fiction.
Girls > Juvenile fiction.
Genre: Sea stories.
Action and adventure fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Lackawanna County Library System. (Show)
  • 0 of 0 copies available at Abington Community Library.

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