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GIVEAWAY! Keeper by Kathi Appelt

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To ten-year-old Keeper, this moon is her chance to fix all that has gone wrong…and so much has gone wrong. But she knows who can make things right again: Meggie Marie, her mermaid mother who swam away when Keeper was just three. A blue moon calls the mermaids to gather at the sandbar, and that’s exactly where she is headed — in a small boat, in the middle of the night, with only her dog, BD (Best Dog), and a seagull named Captain. When the riptide pulls at the boat, tugging her away from the shore and deep into the rough waters of the Gulf of Mexico, panic sets in, and the fairy tales that lured her out there go tumbling into the waves. Maybe the blue moon isn’t magic and maybe the sandbar won’t sparkle with mermaids and maybe — Oh, no…”Maybe” is just too difficult to bear. Kathi Appelt follows up to her New York Times bestseller, The Underneath, with a tale that will pull right at your very core — stronger than moon currents — capturing the crash and echo of the waves and the dark magic of the ocean.

About the Author

Kathi Appelt, at the age of seven, stumbled and fell into an alligator pit in San Antonio, Texas, a place where there should be no alligators or alligator pits. Fortunately she was a lot bigger than the alligator, who was more scared of her than she was of it!
She is a member of the faculty at Vermont College’s Master of Fine Arts program and occasionally teaches creative writing at Texas A&M University. She has two grown children, and lives in Texas with her husband and four cats. Her debut novel, The Underneath, was a National Book Award finalist and a Newbery Honor book.

Product Details

  • Reading level: Ages 9-12
  • Hardcover: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Atheneum; 1 edition (May 18, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1416950605
  • ISBN-13: 978-1416950608

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Contest is open to anyone with reliable mail service (Worldwide and PO Boxes OK!)
Contest ends on 1.24.11 and the winner will be chosen by Random.org on 1.25.11
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  49. I love stories about mermaids and even though this book is for ages 9-12 the “little girl in me” wants to read it!

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  57. LAURA H. — Bornajhawk

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