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1) Jack's house
Author
Lexile measure
AD 650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cumulative text reveals who was really responsible for the house that Jack claims to have built, and all of the trucks involved, from the bulldozer used to clear the land to the van that brought a hammock for the back yard.
2) 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."--
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.
7) Quiet!
Author
Publisher
Child's Play Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A child experiences all the sounds in her house throughout the day.
8) 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.
9) My house
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jim the cat describes his favorite places inside and outside his house" --
10) Home
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 270L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
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
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.
12) Room for Bear
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 450L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Bear and a family of ducks try to find the perfect home to share, but what suits the bear does not suit the ducks, and what suits the ducks does not suit Bear.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
There was a crooked man who lived with a crooked cat and a crooked mouse all together in a little crooked house. Their happy existence is unsettled by a noisy train that passes close by each day, shaking the house and its inhabitants: "Shucka-shucka, shucka-shucka, shucka-shucka!" Literally refusing to stand still for this, the crooked house does the unthinkable!
14) House mouse
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
A clever and resourceful mouse, looking for a safe place to settle down, builds different shelters and learns that home is wherever you make it.
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"The little blue house in this lovely, lyrical book could be overlooking any ocean, and the narrator could be any child anywhere, gazing out over the waters, thinking about all the places she could go and imagining other little blue houses on other shores, with other children gazing back" --
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Look around, what do you see? Windows, walls, and doors? Look closer, there's so much more. One rainy day, a kid opens their closet to discover a teleportation chamber. In the adventure of the imagination that follows, we are invited to see our homes as more than places to live--they are vessels for creativity and joy." -- Dust jacket.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 420L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
When Rabbit and Hedgehog bring home a newly-hatched dragon they all have a wonderful time together, but soon the dragon baby grows too big for their house.
18) 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.
20) Where bear?
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First American edition.
Lexile measure
AD 290L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
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.