Keeper

by Kathi Appelt

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416950605
• ISBN13: 9781416950608
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.3" x 7.3"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7