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Keeper / Kathi Appelt ; illustrations by August Hall.

by Appelt, Kathi, 1954-

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Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2010.

Motherless families -- Juvenile fiction.

Girls -- Juvenile fiction.

Magic -- Juvenile fiction.

Mermaids -- Juvenile fiction.

Boats and boating -- Juvenile fiction.

Mexico, Gulf of -- Juvenile fiction.

9781416950608 (hc.)

1416950605 (hc.)

399, [9] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

"Atheneum Books for Young Readers."

Includes Internet addresses (p. [403-404]).

"To ten-year-old Keeper, this moon is her chance to fix all that has gone wrong...and so much has gone wrong. But she knows who can make things right again: Meggie Marie, her mermaid mother who swam away when Keeper was just three. A blue moon calls the mermaids to gather at the sandbar, and that's exactly where she is headed -- in a small boat, in the middle of the night, with only her dog, BD (Best Dog), and a seagull named Captain. When the riptide pulls at the boat, tugging her away from the shore and deep into the rough waters of the Gulf of Mexico, panic sets in, and the fairy tales that lured her out there go tumbling into the waves. Maybe the blue moon isn't magic and maybe the sandbar won't sparkle with mermaids and maybe -- Oh, no...'Maybe' is just too difficult to bear..." --From the publisher.

Ages 8-12. Atheneum Books for Young Readers.

Grades: 4-7. SLJ.

Sea stories, Juvenile.

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