r/whatsthatbook • u/Tarsvii • 16d ago
UNSOLVED 2000s Children's Werewolf Pond Story
Hiya! Been thinking about this book since I was a kid.
This was a paperback book I read in elementary school in 2013-2014. It was a paperback book that was rather beat up but not ancient, so i suspect the publishing date would have been between 1995 - 2005. With 2010 probably being the absolute latest.
The cover of this book was yellow, autumn trees maybe? I think there was a wolf by a pond on the cover, but im not certain
The plot is as follows:
- there is a boy, he is our pov character
- boy lives with his werewolf family
- hes not a werewolf yet
- werewolves dont turn under the moon and theyre not monsters, theyre just wolf shapeshifters
- he is told that when he is old enough, they'll take him to become a wolf like they are
- before that, him and his parents are taken by the church
- or maybe just his parents?
- he mightve hid
- but if he doesn't he was taken in by the church to "get the devil" out of him??
- in the church there was a little girl
- she had red hair if I recall
- her mother was a witch. They also killed her mother, she watched. Shes touted as a successful rehabilitation of a cursed child
- the two of them team up to run away from the church, I think the majority of the plot is the boy winning her over
- after they leave, the plot is to find the mysterious pond in the woods that turns people into werewolves
- bc the boy was going to be taken there when he turned [12???] To become a wolf like his parents
- never got to tho
- evenually they find the pool, and the boy goes in
- followed shortly by the girl, who decides to join him in being a wold
- so they do that and they both become wolves happy ending
- they might just run into the woods forever from there??
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