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.
How it feels
MoodPlayful
How it reads
Plot intensityEventful
Character focusSmall ensemble
Worth knowing
Written forMiddle grade
When and where
ThemesFamily
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