Keeping the Castle

Kindl, Patrice.  Keeping The Castle. New York: Viking Children’s Books, 2012.

ISBN: 978-0670014385 | Hardcover | 272 p. | $11.98 USD

Annotations:  When Althea's family faces financial problems, she must find a suitor to marry to support her family and save their castle.  Althea is a sharp but lovable protagonist in this witty romantic novel.

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Wrap-Back Booktalk: Althea Crawley is seventeen and stuck. Her mother and little brother Alexander are relying solely on her marriage to a wealthy man in order to keep themselves and their broken down castle all in one piece (literally), while wicked stepsisters Prudence and Charity offer little in the way of help (and usually just cause more problems). Althea’s smart and sassy attitude scares off a number of potential suitors, and the situation looks grim until Lord Boring and his rude friend Mr. Frederick’s move in to Lesser Hoo. Boring seems like prefect husband material – he’s rich, young, handsome, and friendly to boot, and Althea quickly sets her sights on marrying him. Unfortunately for Althea, very few things ever go according to plan. What will Althea sacrifice, and what will she discover about herself along the way, as she faces the task of Keeping the Castle?

Do you ever wonder what an author imagines her characters look like? Autho Patrice Kindl shared her images the characters from Keeping the Castle on this blog:  http://mybookthemovie.blogspot.com/2012/06/patrice-kindls-keeping-castle.html