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2) Home
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
A whimsical tribute to the myriad possibilities of home depicts homes in different real-world environments as well as fantastical settings.
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
With “incantatory prose” that “sweeps over the reader like a dream,” (Philadelphia Inquirer), Hoffman follows her celebrated bestseller The Probable Future, with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over a span of two hundred years.
In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird...
In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird...
Author
Series
Bright and early book volume BE 28
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1994
Description
Six bugs find a tennis ball and turn it into a wonderful house for themselves.
8) Moving house
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Joey and Chloe and their family are getting ready to move, their house decides it wants to go too.
10) The strangers
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
"When something crucial goes missing, eleven-year-old Olive and her friends must decide how to get it back--put their faith in a strange and dangerous magic, their odd new neighbors, or someone more uncertain and terrifying than both"--
11) The second spy
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
After plummeting through a hole in her backyard and finding herself once again in the room of mysterious jars, eleven-year-old Olive unwittingly releases two of Elsewhere's biggest, most cunning, most dangerous forces.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
While the library that Sam and his adventurous friend Sarah live in is being renovated, the two mice try to make new homes for themselves in the attic, constructing everything from a yurt to a geodesic dome. Includes photographs of real house styles discussed and a brief glossary of terms.
Author
Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Twelve-year-old David and his family search for their kidnapped mother in the many different time period portals of their home, but when a stranger appears and tries to force them to sell the house, their desperation reaches new heights.
14) Hey, Mama Goose
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
While seeking a larger home for her many children, the Old Woman visits the dwellings of famous fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters and discovers "There's no place like a shoe."
15) Still life
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
"An old magic resurfaces in twelve-year-old Olive's house, and in order to save herself, those she loves, and all of Elsewhere, she must uncover the complex history of this eerie, painted world, its magical origins, and its creator"--
16) Where bear?
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A bear cub that has grown up with a boy gets too big and bearish to continue living in a house, so the boy sets out with his friend to find him a new place to live.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
20) Who goes there?
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Just as Lewis the mouse is settling into his near-perfect home for the winter, still wondering what is missing, he hears noises and must roar to scare away whatever horrid creature is scratching and tapping at his tree.
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