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"On the weekend of her wedding, Clare Hobbes meets an elderly woman named Edith Herron. During the course of a single conversation, Edith gives Clare the courage to do what she should have done months earlier: break off her engagement to her charming--yet overly possessive--fiancé. Three weeks later, Clare learns that Edith has died and has given her another gift. Shifting between the 1950's and the present and told in the alternating voices of Edith...
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 3
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012.
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.
5) Haunted
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Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The house is historic, some say haunted. It is also slated to be razed and replaced by condos, unless Hannah Smith can do something about it. She's been hired by a wealthy Palm Beach widow to prove that the house's seller didn't disclose everything he knew about the place when he unloaded it, including its role in a bloody Civil War skirmish (in which two of Hannah's own distant relations had had a part), and the suicides--or where they murders?--of...
7) Home
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A whimsical tribute to the different types of homes depicting them in real-world environments as well as fantastical settings.
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Please make a list of every possession you consider essential to your life. The request seems odd, even intrusive--and for the two women who answer, the consequences are devastating. EMMA Reeling from a traumatic break-in, Emma wants a new place to live. But none of the apartments she sees are affordable or feel safe. Until One Folgate Street. The house is an architectural masterpiece: a minimalist design of pale stone, plate glass, and soaring ceilings....
Publisher
Meredith Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Contains advice on home improvement projects in a highly illustrated format that includes hints and tips for making tasks easier and correcting mistakes, covering topics that include painting, electrical, cabinets, and exterior maintenance.
10) Wrecking ball
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 14
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"An unexpected inheritance gives Greg Heffley's family a chance to make big changes to their house. But they soon find that home improvement isn't all it's cracked up to be"--
13) Quiet!
Author
Publisher
Child's Play Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A child experiences all the sounds in her house throughout the day.
15) Spellbound
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 2
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011.
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.
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Marinka's grandmother is Baba Yaga, who guides spirits between this world and the next--and Marinka is in training to be the next Yaga. Marinka longs to change her destiny and sets out to break free from her grandmother's footsteps, but her house has other ideas...
18) The little house
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her.
19) The Shadows
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010.
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.
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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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 the secrets of the cursed house.
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