Poskitt, Kjartan
Summary: "It's dinnertime, and one pesky pea has decided to ping himself off the plate in search of fun. He hops, skips, and bounces across the kitchen. But the house if a perilous place, and our rogue pea might find more adventure that he bargained for!"--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POSLangreuter, Jutta.
Summary: "Brayden Bunny doesn't feel like picking up his toys or washing his whiskers. It'd be so much easier to live with his friends, so Brayden decides to give it a try. But every new home he visits come with a new problem: Missy Mouse's house is too messy, Benny Badger's house smells a little funny, and Fipsi Squirrel's house is too high. At last Brayden Bunny visits his Cousin Pepi. Everything...
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Publisher / Publication Date: North South 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E LANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LANHatke, Ben
Summary: Julie welcomes all lost and homeless creatures into her house, whether they be cats or trolls, ghosts or dragons, but soon realizes that each must have a chore in order for the arrangement to work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E HATFreedman, Deborah (Deborah Jane)
Summary: Asks readers to think about ways in which the natural world has provided for them, by exploring all the different elements of a house and where each came from, once.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FREBarton, Byron
Summary: "Jim the cat describes his favorite places inside and outside his house"
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E BARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE BOARD BARWilson, Karma
Summary: Just as Lewis the mouse is settling into his near-perfect home for the winter, still wondering what is missing, he hears noises and must roar to scare away whatever horrid creature is scratching and tapping at his tree.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E WILMalinenko, Ally
Summary: "A strange house appears on Jac's street on the five-year anniversary of her cancer diagnosis, and when she gets trapped inside she will have to confront horrors from her past to find a way out"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MALHoráček, Petr.
Summary: When Mouse discovers that the big juicy apple she finds is too big to fit into her tiny home, she sets out to find a larger house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E HorKirk, Daniel.
Summary: While the library that Sam and his adventurous friend Sarah live in is being renovated, the two mice try to make new homes for themselves in the attic, constructing everything from a yurt to a geodesic dome. Includes photographs of real house styles discussed and a brief glossary of terms.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE KIRIwai, Toshio
Summary: After receiving a mysterious invitation, Tochi climbs a one hundred story house where he meets a menagerie of animals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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Summary: Sugar, Dirt, Sweetie, Poppy, and their mother, Moosh, live in a crowded chicken house until Sugar ventures out and finds a new home with a bathtub, a large bed, and even a massage table.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2021
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Summary: A story about two muskrats and the things we wish for--and the things we really need.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2017
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J BLUE THOWest, Jacqueline
Summary: "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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2013
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC WESSambury, Liselle
Summary: Told in alternating timelines, seventeen-year-old Daisy and her mother move into her deceased uncle's mansion, only to find horrors waiting inside, and ten years later, Brittney investigates the mystery behind the Miracle Mansion that turned her mother's life around.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SAMHenkes, Kevin
Summary: Bright illustrations paired with interactive call-and-response questions tell of what makes a house a home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HENWest, Jacqueline
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2013
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC WESPeterson, Mary (Mary Jeanette)
Summary: Snail is a merry little mollusk in his rusty bucket filled with strawberries. Strawberries are his favorite treat, but when he eats himself sick, his best friend Ladybug tells him he has to move away from the yummy red fruit. She takes him looking for a forever home, but Snail roams away from his friend and runs into a hungry Chicken. Rut-roh! Will he make it to his new home or be a tasty treat...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Pix 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PETWest, Jacqueline
Summary: "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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2014
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC WESWest, Jacqueline
Summary: 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 / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2012
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1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC WESFunaro, Gregory.
Summary: In Victorian England Grubb, an orphan about twelve years old, escapes his life of drudgery as a chimney sweep's apprentice and finds himself in a very strange house filled with magical objects and creatures, but soon he learns that there are dark forces seeking his new master.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FUNMartins, Vitor
Summary: The house at Number 8 Sunflower Street tells the stories of three teenagers who have lived within its walls in the 21st century--Ana, a lesbian forced to leave her home, Greg sent to live with his aunt when his parents divorce, and Beto, a would-be photographer living during the COVID pandemic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Push 2022
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Summary: "All Burt the beetle wants to do is settle down and find the perfect home for himself. Should he build his home out of silk like monarch butterflies? Or make it out of wood fibres and saliva like wasps? Or maybe he could just move into a human home? What does the perfect home for a June beetle look like anyways? And how will Burt know when he's found it? Follow along in this charming and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J GRAPHIC SPIFunaro, Gregory
Summary: In Victorian England Grubb, an orphan about twelve years old, escapes his life of drudgery as a chimney sweep's apprentice and finds himself in a very strange house filled with magical objects and creatures, but soon he learns that there are dark forces seeking his new master.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FUNSparkes, Amy
Summary: Sometimes you are a whisper away from magic without even realizing it. Nine is an orphan pickpocket determined to escape her life in the Nest of a Thousand Treasures. When she steals a house-shaped ornament from a mysterious woman's purse, she knocks on its tiny door and watches it grow into a huge, higgledy-piggeldy house. Inside she finds a host of magical and brilliantly funny characters,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books 2021