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Vocabulary: haint blue


Title: Keeper
Author: Kathi Appelt
Sentence: The haint blue house. Painted that way by its current resident, Signe. "to keep the ghosts at bay," she had joked.
Page: 189

Word: haint
Definition:
  • noun: ghost
  • verb: variant of haunt
   Source: AllWords.com

Haint Blue – Legend has it that spirits cannot travel over bodies of water and this color mimicked the color of water thereby tricking haints from crossing into the house. Not only porches were painted for protection, but shutters, doors, window trims as well as whole houses too for the particularly supernaturally paranoid.
- Source: Haint Blue–Supernatural protection in one coat latex or oil enamel!

Quote: Fear of Loss


Title: Keeper
Author: Kathi Appelt
Page: 105

Now a fear as deep as the ocean zipped through Keeper’s body, her biggest fear ever, one so deep, she knew not to ever, ever say it out loud, not ever. And then today, it crawled out of her like an ugly toad: If a girl’s own mother can swim away, what would keep everyone else from leaving too, especially if that same girl caused so much trouble? The toad of fear made a big fat cccrrooaaaakkkk right in Keeper’s stomach.

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