- Mermaids, Mothers and daughters, Fiction, Sailing
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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Earnest, classical in form, contemporary and grave.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Kathi Appelt
- First published
- 2010
- Pages
- 399
- Publisher
- Atheneum Books for Young Readers
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781416950608
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