Keeper, Kathi Appelt
Keeper, Kathi Appelt
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Keeper

Author: Kathi Appelt

Narrator: Kathi Appelt

Unabridged: 6 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/18/2010


Synopsis

Newbery Medal Honoree Kathi Appelt enchants with a tale about mermaids, mermen, and what happens when you believe in fairy tales for too long.

Keeper was born in the ocean, and she believes she is part mermaid. So when she accidentally sets off a series of disasters, she goes out looking for her mother—an unpredictable and uncommonly gorgeous woman who swam away when Keeper was three. Keeper heads right for the ocean, right for the sandbar where mermaids are known to gather on full moon nights. 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.

About Kathi Appelt

Kathi Appelt is the author of the Newbery Honoree, National Book Award finalist, and bestselling The Underneath as well as the National Book Award finalist The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man SwampMaybe a Fox (with Alison McGhee), Keeper, and many picture books including Counting Crows and Max Attacks. She has two grown children and lives in College Station, Texas, with her husband. Visit her at KathiAppelt.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Betsy on May 31, 2010

I don't consider myself a particularly sentimental person. I don't really cry at movies (E.T. was supposed to go home, for crying out loud). Television shows leave me high and dry (sorry LOST finale). And books? Considering that I read most of them in quick bits and bites as I travel the New York Ci......more

Goodreads review by Asghar on October 29, 2017

Me to this lovely book : Thank you for the word and no, that word isn't Ningyo. You know what I love about this book. It wasn't very clear whether an actual mermaid was involved in the story or not. But what there wasn't any ambiguity about was the love shown here. A mother's love. An ocean isn't la......more

Goodreads review by Susan on February 26, 2011

I found this at Powell's on sale, and autographed. I used my "random page" test and knew I must take this home to read with my daughter. I'm usually a biography person because they are linear and easy to follow. This book was a pleasure from beginning to end, and unexpected. I was delighted by the ba......more

Goodreads review by Margo on May 26, 2010

I'm hoping this one makes the short list for the Newbery...This is one of the most beautifully written children's novels I've read in some time. Our heroine, called by everyone Keeper, is a 10-year old girl whose mother left her when she was 3 in the care of her roommate, Signe. Born literally in th......more

Goodreads review by Suebee on June 14, 2010

I loved Appelt's Newbery-honor winning "The Underneath," and I couldn't WAIT to pick up her newest novel, Keeper, for ages 9-12. Betsy Bird gave it a wonderful review and it's on the short list for 2010 Newbery contenders. For me, it was an emotional read but I don't know what kid I would recommend......more