Keeper

Keeper was born in the ocean, and she believes she is part mermaid. So as a ten-year-old she goes out looking for her mother-an unpredictable and uncommonly gorgeous woman who swam away when Keeper was three-and heads right for the ocean, right for the sandbar where mermaids are known to gather. 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...