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Determined to be as strong and powerful as the first Harleigh, who built the rambling Weatherby Hall, twelve-year-old Harleigh Fourth and an equally diminutive new friend try to foil the plans of a distant relative who is seeking the long-lost Weatherby fortune. Harleigh J. Weatherby IV feels misunderstood. At age twelve he is about as tall as a six-year-old, and no one lets him forget it. At school the bullies nicknamed him "Hardly." Now he is homeschooled...
Author
Series
House of secrets (Chris Columbus) volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"With their last adventure just barely over, the Walker kids thought life would finally go back to normal. But things don't remain calm for long... especially when the colossus Fat Jagger turns up in San Francisco Bay--and he's in danger! With the police closing in, the Walkers must figure out how to save their giant friend. When a frost beast is spotted in Santa Rosa--and more mystical creatures start appearing all over America--it's soon clear that...
3) Homes
Author
Series
Publisher
Crabtree Pub
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
38 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
Homes provide shelter and can also have cultural meanings and traditions in various cultures around the world.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
53 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Lucy is sure there are wolves living in the walls of her house, although others in her family disagree, and when the wolves come out, the adventure begins.
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English
Description
Sixth-grader Jules is used to moving into old houses. Her dad, who specializes in historical renovation, restores them to their former glory. This time, she's worried their new old house, a crumbling Virginia mansion, is haunted. Though she is staying in a modern addition, she has visions of the past from the point of view of a girl named Lily. Nightly, Jules hears a ghostly reenactment of angry men storming the home and Lily barricading herself in...
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English
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Ten-year-old Alice is moving for the eleventh time. She's lived in so many houses, each more broken than the last, that home to Alice is nothing more than a place you fix and then a place you leave. After all, who needs a permanent home when you're a whiz at fixing things? But when Alice arrives at her new home, she can't take her eyes off the house next door, the stately dark house that hulked in the dimming light. The once-grand mansion, now dilapidated...
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Series
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2012]
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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"--
Author
Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
289 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Xander and his family move into an old, abandoned house in the middle of a dense forest outside of a small California town, they discover that not only are some of the rooms portals into other places, but that malevolent forces are at work.
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 5
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
330 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An unexpected inheritance allows the Heffley family to make major improvements to their home, but construction causes so much trouble they consider just moving, instead.
14) Native homes
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces the traditional dwellings built and used by Native nations across North America.
17) Gatekeepers
Author
Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
With their mother still missing after going through a Civil War time portal in their spooky house, and their father in jail under a false accusation, Xander, David, and their younger sister continue to try to bring their mother back, now with the help of an old relative who has turned up unexpectedly.
18) Houses
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Pub., LLC
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses house construction in the United States, in the past as well as the present.
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