Carle, Eric.
Summary: A hermit crab who has outgrown his old shell moves into a new one, which he decorates and enhances with the various sea creatures he meets in his travels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2014
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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 WESBarton, 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 Board Books, Call number: JE BOARD BARFunaro, 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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Summary: The tables have turned in this hilarious follow-up to There's a Bear on My Chair. But this time it's Bear who has an unwelcome guest, and this mouse just won't leave! He's making a real commotion in Bear's house--eating all the food, listening to loud music, and even spilling bathwater all over the floor! But when there's an unexpected knock at the door, will Bear decide that visitors aren't so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COLFunaro, 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 FUNSambury, 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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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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Summary: Mr. and Mrs. Mallard proudly return to their home in the Boston Public Garden with their eight offspring.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 1941
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Summary: "When twelve-year-old Garnet finally gets to meet her magical extended family she discovers they're all trapped in the ruins of their crumbling manor and Garnet must break a curse that has decimated three generations of Carrefours"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SALHatke, 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 HATSummary: Contains five storybook classics for children, including "No Roses for Harry," "Miss Nelson is Missing," "The Story About Ping," "The Little House," and "Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel."
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World 2007
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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
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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 MALTrevayne, Emma
Summary: When her distant aunt and uncle die, Amelia Howling and her parents move in with Amelia's orphaned cousins. Luckily, the house is large, filled with nooks and crannies perfect for hiding. The house was built years ago by a creature named Horatio, who has the power to travel through time and memories. He's been waiting for the perfect human inhabitant, and lures Amelia into his world. Her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FICTION TREPeterson, 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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Summary: Imaginative Jack describes the kind of house he would build--one with a racetrack, a flying room, and a gigantic slide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E VANBlackall, Sophie
Summary: A farmhouse provides the setting for a dozen children to live and grow, and when they leave, another family arrives to fill the house with love again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BLAWilson, 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 WILLangreuter, 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: JE LANSpires, Ashley
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 SPIPasiński, Mikołaj
Summary: "A zany peek into a busy apartment building, and what the one-of-a-kind residents are up to. There's a lot happening inside the apartment building on Bubblegum Street. There's Mouse, a famous rapper, who lives on the ground floor and is getting ready to go out. Panther, the plant collector, has plants from every single continent. Hippo snores in his favorite armchair, dreaming of a great Arctic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Kids 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PASKlise, Kate.
Summary: In this story told mostly through letters, children's book author, I. B. Grumply, gets more than he bargained for when he rents a quiet place to write for the summer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: J FIC KLIBurningham, John
Summary: A secret mouse family are discovered sharing a house and must escape before the mouse catcher arrives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2018