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Title:
Keeper
JLCTITLE245:
Kathi Appelt ; illustrations by August Hall.
Personal Author:
Appelt, Kathi, 1954-
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2010.
Physical Description:
399 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
ISBN:
9781416950608
Abstract:
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.
Reading Level:
Grades 4-7.

770 L Lexile
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader Grades 5-8 5 8 Quiz 137052 English fiction.
Subject Term:
Sailing -- Fiction.

Ocean -- Fiction.

Mermaids -- Fiction.

Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.

Mother-separated girls -- Fiction.

Determination in girls -- Fiction.

Determination (Personal quality) -- Fiction.

Dogs -- Fiction.

Ten-year-old girls -- Fiction.

Girls -- Fiction.

Sailing -- Juvenile fiction.

Sea stories.

Mermaids -- Juvenile fiction.

Mothers and daughters -- Juvenile fiction.

Mermaids and mermen -- Fiction.

Mother-daughter relationship -- Fiction.
Geographic Term:
Gulf States -- Fiction.

Gulf States -- Juvenile fiction.
Added Author:
Hall, August,
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