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Author
Series
Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Years ago, a man disappeared from the yellow house on Surprise Island. Why? The Aldens have found a clue to the mystery! Adapted from Gertrude Chandler Warner's story of the same name, this new version introduces young readers to a Boxcar Children classic.
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 14
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
940L
Physical Desc
217 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When an unexpected inheritance gives Greg Heffley's family a chance to make big changes to their house, they soon discover that renovations may not be worth the effort.
Once the walls come down, all sorts of problems start to crop up. Rotten wood, toxic mold, unwelcome critters, and something even more sinister all make Greg and his family wonder if the renovations are worth the trouble. When the dust finally settles, will the Heffleys be able to...
6) The shadows
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 1
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Olive and her distracted parents move into an old Victorian mansion, Olive finds herself ensnared in a dark plan involving some mysterious paintings, a trapped and angry nine-year-old boy, and three talking cats.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
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.
9) Farmhouse
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
43 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
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.
14) The blue house
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 520L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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.
15) Still life
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 5
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
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) A house
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Bright illustrations paired with interactive call-and-response questions tell of what makes a house a home.
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 330L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 25 cm
Language
English
Description
After buying a hammer to fix a loose floorboard, Mr. Nogginbody learns a lot about home repairs--and what is, and is not, a nail.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
"All 12-year-old Marinka wants is a friend. A real friend. Not like her house with chicken legs. Sure, the house can play games like tag and hide-and-seek, but Marinka longs for a human companion. Someone she can talk to and share secrets with. But that's tough when your grandmother is a Yaga, a guardian who guides the dead into the afterlife. It's even harder when you live in a house that wanders all over the world . . . carrying you with it. Even...
19) Spellbound
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Olive finds herself drawn to the grimoire of the witches who built her house and tries to use its spells to uncover the house's magic and control the cats themselves, but the book is more wicked than it seems.
20) The second spy
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 3
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
880L
Physical Desc
296 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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.