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1) Piranesi
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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 instant. But Piranesi is not afraid; he understands the tides as he understands the pattern of the labyrinth itself. He lives to explore the house. There...
Author
Series
Sworn soldier volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves. Aided by a redoubtable...
Author
Series
House of secrets volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
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.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Life at Ninian House, Ewan's Scottish home that slips back and forth in time, becomes even more unpredictable when a ghostly girl from 1937 shares a frightening secret with him.
10) Too tall houses
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Owl and Rabbit are good friends and neighbors atop a hill, but when Rabbit's garden blocks Owl's view of the forest Owl builds a higher house, which prevents sunlight from reaching Rabbit's plants.
11) Jack
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Young Jack meets a host of animals on his way to ask the king for a house"--
12) Bookworm
Author
Publisher
Golden Books Pub. Co
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
While all the animals help Owl build a house, Bookworm reads, but they welcome him inside anyway when the snow comes.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Johnny, who lives in Arizona but feels a special connection to his grandfather's 265-year-old farm house in Washington, Connecticut, is overjoyed when his family spends Christmas there.
16) Whose house?
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A boy imagines himself living in various animals' homes, then decides his own warm house and cozy bed are just right for him.
Author
Language
English
Description
"1965 Growing up in the well-to-do town of Round Hill, North Carolina, Ellie Hockley was raised to be a certain type of proper Southern lady. Enrolled in college and all but engaged to a bank manager, Ellie isn't as committed to her expected future as her family believes. She's chosen to spend her summer break as a volunteer helping to register black voters. But as Ellie follows her ideals fighting for the civil rights of the marginalized, her scandalized...
18) Timescape
Author
Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 4
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
David, Xander, Dad, and Keal discover that Taksidian wants their house for himself in order to use the time portals to build an empire, and unless they can find his weakness in time, the future of the world itself may be in danger.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Cameron + Company
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Enjoying a quiet life of books and lovely views from his hilltop home, a pig is dismayed to encounter an excessively friendly duck who builds an elaborate home obscuring Pig's window and who talks about his numerous athletic exploits.
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