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I know I am always telling people not to judge books by their covers, but I am certainly guilty of this infraction from time to time.\u00a0 Somehow, I saw the cover of this book and thought it would be more fantastic than it was.\u00a0 Maybe it was the banner that says \u201cBelieve in the unbelievable\u2026\u201d\u00a0 Maybe it was the castle in the background.\u00a0 But, somehow, I had my mind set that those kids would be involved in mystical time travel.\u00a0 Yeah\u2026\u00a0 Not so much!\u00a0 Although, there were chapters that took readers back to the early 1900s to discover the history of the Water Castle and the ancestors of the main characters, those main characters most definitely did not travel through time themselves.\u00a0 And that was OK.\u00a0 Even though this story wasn\u2019t what I thought it would be, I still thought it was extremely cool.<\/p>\n
Ephraim Appledore-Smith\u2019s family relocated to Crystal Springs, Maine, after his father had a stroke.\u00a0 Though his mother had inherited the house quite some time ago, Ephraim and his siblings had never been there before.\u00a0 His mother decided to move to Crystal Springs because she had hopes that a specialist who lived in that area would be able to help her husband with his recovery.\u00a0 After their arrival, though, Ephraim became obsessed with the possibility that the local water had special, mystical properties and that he could use it to cure his father.\u00a0 After all, that was how the \u201cWater Castle\u201d came to be in the first place; his ancestor, Orlando Appledore, built the house because he was convinced that the Fountain of Youth was in Crystal Springs.\u00a0 After floundering to find his niche in the new town\/school, Ephraim became part of an unlikely trio \u2014 with Mallory Green, whose family has always worked as caretakers of the Appledore property, and Will Wylie, whose family has long feuded with the Appledores.\u00a0 First brought together by a polar explorer’s research project, the three banded together with a determination to find the fountain of youth themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I know I am always telling people not to judge books by their covers, but I am certainly guilty of this infraction from time to time.\u00a0 Somehow, I saw the cover of this book and thought it would be more fantastic than it was.\u00a0 Maybe it was the banner that says \u201cBelieve in the unbelievable\u2026\u201d\u00a0 … Continue reading The Water Castle by Megan Frazer Blakemore<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-children","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}