The narration was produced by one of her sons. As nontraditional as anything, these people have knitted a loving family around each other. Beauchamp who is waiting/ wishing for his long lost love, Jack.
She has a father figure in Dogie, who is in love with Signe and a grandfather figure in Mr. It is rather sophisticated for the tween audience that is implied by a ten-year-old main character what with the runaway mother and very young single foster mother. But I wonder, just as I did with The Underneath, whom the audience is. It's steeped in mythology and magic just as in The Underneath. I really felt I knew Oyster Ridge Road could picture it in my mind's eye and smell the salt air. There has been a bit of Newbery buzz over this one and it's certainly well deserved.
As interesting as these human denizens are, there is also a menagerie of animals, including BD (Best Dog), and his best friends BD Too (Too, for short), Sinbad, the one-eyed cat and Captain, a seagull with a love for watermelon. Beauchamp, a man as old as barnacles, who is waiting for a wish to come true.
There's Dogie, the stuttering war vet, who has been in love with Signe for ten years. There's Signe, her mother's very young friend, who took over being Keeper's mother even though she was barely eighteen. Keeper, who's mother left her seven years earlier, is convinced that her mother is a mermaid and can make this disastrous day right. This lovely character driven story takes place over the course of a day, but Appelt skillfully uses flashbacks to weave a complex tale of love and longing among the residents of Oyster Ridge Road. But Keeper has a PLAN! If only the moon would do its job and push the tide out, she can set her plan in motion and all will be well with the world. And it's all the fault of the stupid crabs. In fact, everything went wrong when everything was supposed to be perfect on this blue moon day.
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