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2) Home
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A whimsical tribute to the myriad possibilities of home depicts homes in different real-world environments as well as fantastical settings.
Author
Language
English
Description
Poor Hermit Crab! He's outgrown his snug little shell and has to find a new home. And he does, with help from some friends who make the move less scary. Children facing change in their own lives will relate to Hermit Crab's story-and learn a lot about the fascinating world of marine life along the way. Hermit Crab's problem is that he keeps outgrowing things. When he outgrows his first shell-house, he's a bit scared. The next one he finds is big enough...
4) Piranesi
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality. Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls are lined with thousands upon thousands of statues, each one different from all the others. Within the labyrinth of halls an ocean is imprisoned; waves thunder up staircases, rooms are flooded in an...
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 14
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
An unexpected inheritance gives the Heffley family a chance to make major improvements to their home. But they soon find that construction isn't all it's cracked up to be. When things get rough, will the Heffleys be able to stay...or will they be forced to move?
Author
Language
English
Description
"Down the road from a working-class British pub, along the brick wall of a narrow alley, if the conditions are exactly right, you'll find the entrance to Slade House: a surreal place where visitors see what they want to see, including some things that should be impossible. Every nine years, the house's residents--an odd brother and sister--extend a unique invitation to someone who's different or lonely: a precocious teenager, a divorced policeman,...
7) Farmhouse
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A farmhouse provides the setting for a dozen children to live and grow, and when they leave, another family arrives to fill the house with love again.
10) The blue house
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
Both Leo and his father are angry and sad when their landlord says their old house will be torn down, but soon they find a way to make their new house feel like home.
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Mabel and her younger brother Sam approach their new home and the trauma of moving by turning it into an adventure, imagining they are sailors approaching a new land, tour guides exploring a museum, and finally astronauts in space.
Author
Language
English
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Description
How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled father-in-law...
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Deep in the woods is a little wooden house, with nine neat windows and a red front door. When a little mouse decides it will make the perfect home, so do the other animals in the woods. One by one other animals are welcomed to share the home until the little house is full. All the animals live happily together until the day a great big bear wants to squeeze in too. But will the bear be able to put everything right when their home comes tumbling down?...
19) House of secrets
Author
Series
House of secrets (Chris Columbus) volume 1
Language
English
Description
Cordelia, Brendan, and Eleanor Walker, aged fifteen to eight, must rely on a mysterious book to face the Wind Witch and her father, the Storm King, who have kidnapped Dr. and Mrs. Walker and brought them to a strange world of magic.
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