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Keeper

Kathi Appelt

2012399 pagesabout 6–9 hours
2012
first published
  • 2012Atheneum Books for Young Readers · 399 pages · ENGISBN 9781416950615

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.

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Plot intensityEventful
Character focusSmall ensemble

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Written forMiddle grade

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ThemesFamily
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