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Keeper Hardcover - 2010 - 1st Edition
by Kathi Appelt; August Hall (Illustrator)
Newbery Honoree Appelt enchants with a tale about mermaids, mermen, and what happens when a girl outgrows fairy tales just a little too late.
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Keeper was born in the ocean, and she believes she is part mermaid. So as a ten-year-old she goes out looking for her mother—an unpredictable and uncommonly gorgeous woman who swam away when Keeper was three—and heads right for the ocean, right for the sandbar where mermaids are known to gather. But her boat is too small for the surf—and much too small for the storm that is brewing on the horizon.
Kathi Appelt follows her award-winning and New York Times bestselling novel The Underneath with this stunning, mysterious, and breathtaking tale of a girl who outgrows fairy tales just a little too late—and learns in the end that there is nothing more magical and mythical than love itself.
Kathi Appelt follows her award-winning and New York Times bestselling novel The Underneath with this stunning, mysterious, and breathtaking tale of a girl who outgrows fairy tales just a little too late—and learns in the end that there is nothing more magical and mythical than love itself.
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- Title Keeper
- Author Kathi Appelt; August Hall (Illustrator)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Atheneum Books for Young Readers, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2010-05-18
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Dust Cover, Illustrated, Price on Product - Canadian
- ISBN 9781416950608 / 1416950605
- Weight 1.12 lbs (0.51 kg)
- Dimensions 7.25 x 5.25 x 1.25 in (18.42 x 13.34 x 3.18 cm)
- Ages 08 to 12 years
- Grade levels 3 - 7
- Reading level 770
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Gulf Coast
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Mothers and daughters, Sea stories
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010000795
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
Ten-year-old Keeper believes in wishes and magic, and why shouldnâÈçt she? Her mother, gone for the last seven years, is a mermaid, after all! So on the day of the Blue Moon, when everything she does has a disastrous result, Keeper knows her only option is to row out past the sandbar to the treacherous open water of the Gulf of Mexico, accompanied by BD (Best Dog) and Captain the seagull, and hope her mermaid mama can tell her how to fix things. Keeper is funny, feisty, at times older than her years, and often so stubborn that readers will have to shake their heads. In other words, quite realistic. The adults in the story are beautifully drawn, and absolutely believable, and the Gulf Coast setting is practically a character itself. The tender romance between two teenaged boys years earlier is hinted at, and it is sensitively portrayed, as is the romance between KeeperâÈçs guardian, Signe, and the damaged former soldier, Dogie. Filled with love, wild adventure, family drama, and even a touch of true fantasy, this is a deeply satisfying tale.âÈ'Mara Alpert, Los Angeles Public Library
SLJ July 1, 2010 STAR
SLJ July 1, 2010 STAR
Citations
- Booklist, 06/01/2010, Page 73
- BookPage, 06/01/2010, Page 0
- Horn Book Magazine, 09/01/2010, Page 71
- Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/2011, Page 63
- Kirkus Review - Children, 05/01/2010, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly, 05/03/2010, Page 52
- School Library Journal, 07/01/2010, Page 80
- SLJ's Best Books, 12/01/2010, Page 29
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New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2010. I6 - A 2th printing hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by author to previous owner on the half-title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. Illustrations by August Hall. Blue moon, magic moon... good for wishing. Kathi Appelt follows up to her New York Times bestseller, The Underneath, with a tale that iwll pull right at your very core - stronger than moon currents - capturing the crash and echo of the waves and the dark magic of the ocean. 7.5"x5.5", 399 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. To ten-year-old Keeper the 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: Maggie 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 Keeper is headed - in a small boat. In the…
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