Atwood, Margaret
Summary: In these stories, Ramsay runs away from relatives, Bob is raised by dogs and Dorinda does housework for distant relatives, and Wenda and her woodchuck companion need to find a way to outsmart Widow Wallop.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ATWFu, Cherie
Summary: Little messy Marcy Su cleans the house to help her mother, but with every mess she picks up she somehow makes another. Includes Chinese language lesson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE FUVaron, Sara.
Summary: When Chicken opens a housekeeping business, his best friend Cat comes to mind as the perfect partner. But Cat is sleepy, clumsy, and makes a lot of mistakes, until he finds his own way to save the day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE VARDavis, Fiona
Summary: Interior designer Bailey Camdenis leaps at a chance to renovate her heiress cousin's lavish apartment at The Dakota, and learns the scandalous history of a distant ancestor's connection to the murder of the building's architect a century earlier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M DAVWilliams, David K.
Summary: Four friends race the clock to clean the house before Mom gets home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2006
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN WILGrey, Mini.
Summary: Cat, Dog, and Mouse live together contentedly in a cottage by the sea, dividing the work between them, until A. Stranger, Esq., a fox from the Winds of Change company, arrives and stirs up trouble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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Summary: In 1776, eleven-year-old Felicity runs the household while her mother and siblings are away, but is distracted by her horse's ill health, two strangers in town, and the fear that a box of family heirlooms is haunted. Includes historical information about life in colonial Williamsburg.
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Publisher / Publication Date: American Girl Pub. 2009
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC JONWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: Four orphans, two boys and two girls, set up housekeeping in an old boxcar.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 1977
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2 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WARBarnes, Kim.
Summary: Driven by youthful idealism, Thomas Deracotte and his pregnant wife, Helen, leave upper-crust Connecticut for a utopian adventure in the Idaho wilderness, purchasing a dilapidated local farm and optimistically setting up housekeeping with the help of a local boy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARDisney, Walt
Summary: Originally published in "Good Housekeeping" magazine, a collection of fifty favorite one-page poetic adaptations of classic Disney cartoons includes entries that have rarely been seen since their original publication in the 1930s and 1940s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universe Pub. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE DISHayder, Mo.
Summary: After a popular Bath teen's murder, police detective Zoe Benedict looks beyond the usual motives to solve the crime; while her divorced sister, Sally, takes a housekeeping job for a wealthy entrepreneur who behaves in increasingly suspicious ways.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2011