Keeper (Appelt novel)

Keeper
Author Kathi Appelt
Illustrator August Hall
Cover artist August Hall
Country United States
Language English
Genre Children's literature
Fantasy
Publisher Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Publication date
2010
Published in English
2010
Pages 399
ISBN 978-1-4169-5060-8

Keeper is a 2010 novel written by Kathi Appelt. This story is about a young girl who searches for her mermaid mother, Meggie Marie.

Summary

After unintentionally ruining a blue moon day by messing up her guardian's crab gumbo and breaking her favorite wooden bowl, causing a friend's ukulele to break, as well as wrecking the plants of her elderly neighbor, Keeper decides to make everything right. Taking with her seven wooden figurines of different mermaids, her dog BD, and a charm she had since she was a girl, Keeper sets out to find her mother, Meggie Marie, who has not been seen in seven years. Keeper finds out that her mother actually was not a mermaid but Keeper does get her share of magic after all.

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