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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are orphans. Determined to make it on their own, they set out to find a safe place to live. They discover an old, red boxcar that provides shelter from a storm. Against all odds, they make it into their home-and become The Boxcar Children.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A hardworking family gets their own house at last by joining a community program that restores old houses. Includes a note about housing organizations, such as Habitat for Humanity.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
With "incantatory prose" that "sweeps over the reader like a dream" (Philadelphia Inquirer), Hoffman follows her celebrated bestseller The Probable Future with an evocative work that traces the lives of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over a span of two hundred years.In a rare and gorgeous departure, beloved novelist Alice Hoffman weaves a web of tales, all set in Blackbird House. This small farm on the outer reaches of Cape Cod...
Author
Language
English
Description
Brooke Holloway is raising six-year-old Meghan and ten-year-old Spencer on her own two years after her husband's death. Being a single mom and running the family's small-town hardware store keep her busy. The last thing on Brooke's mind is falling in love. Owen Saunders fled the big city to start over. Then he bought an old house to restore--for all the wrong reasons. If anything needs restoration, it is Owen's heart in the aftermath of his failed...
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Language
English
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Description
The last thing Libby Sawyer and her father expected upon their return from their summer home was to find strangers inhabiting a house that had been in their family for decades. Widower Michael Dobrescu brought his family from Romania to the town of Colden, Massachusetts with a singular purpose: to claim the house willed to him long ago. Since neither party has any intention of giving up their claim, a fierce legal battle ensues between the two families....
11) The little house
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her.
Author
Publisher
M. Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While the Petersons are away, their house decides to take a trip to the sea to watch the "Dance of the Sunlight," despite some groaning from the chimney and the basement's refusal to rise to the occasion.
14) The Hideaway
Author
Language
English
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Description
"When her grandmother's will wrenches Sara back home from New Orleans, she learns more about Margaret Van Buren in the wake of her death than she ever did in life. After her last remaining family member dies, Sara Jenkins goes home to The Hideaway, her grandmother Mags's ramshackle B & B in Sweet Bay, Alabama. She intends to quickly tie up loose ends then return to her busy life and thriving antique shop in New Orleans. Instead, she learns Mags has...
Series
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Despite building a mansion in 1898 for a woman who elopes with another, Captain Royce manages to create a legacy on the hill overlooking Hannibal, Missouri. Tadd Winston, a successful immigrant, buys the house and must quickly produce a family he has
16) The blue house
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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.
17) The house
Author
Language
English
Description
With the generous inheritance from an elder client, estate lawyer Sarah Anderson buys a majestic old house that was build in 1923 by a wealthy man for the woman he adored. Taking the biggest risk of her life, Sarah enlists the help of architect Jeff
19) Monster house
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A group of kids discover that a neighborhood house is actually a monster. To solve the mystery of the house they must go inside it, before it takes everyone that crosses its path.
Author
Series
Publisher
Jump!
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this book, early fluent readers will marvel at the beauty of Buckingham Palace, while learning about its history, location, many rooms, current inhabitants, and art. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn more about the palace's cultural history. A Take a Look! infographic aids understanding, sidebars present interesting, supplementary information, and an activity offers readers an opportunity...
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