Appelt, Kathi, 1954-

Keeper / Kathi Appelt ; illustrations by August Hall. - 1st ed. - New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2010. - 399 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

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.

School Library Journal Best Books, 2010.

ISBN: 9781416950608 1416950605

LCCN: 2010000795

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Sailing--Fiction.
Sea stories.
Mermaids--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Gulf States--Fiction.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.A6455 / Ke 2010