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1) Brightwood
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
When her mother disappears and a menacing stranger tries to claim her home, Brightwood Hall, for himself, Daisy must use her wits, courage, and help from her imaginary friends to survive.
Author
Pub. Date
[1987]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Fountas & Pinnell
K
Description
Poor Hermit Crab! He's outgrown his snug little shell and has to find a new home. And he does, with help from some friends who make the move less scary. Children facing change in their own lives will relate to Hermit Crab's story-and learn a lot about the fascinating world of marine life along the way. Hermit Crab's problem is that he keeps outgrowing things. When he outgrows his first shell-house, he's a bit scared. The next one he finds is big enough...
3) Home
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
AD 140L
Description
A whimsical tribute to the myriad possibilities of home depicts homes in different real-world environments as well as fantastical settings.
6) Spellbound
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 2
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
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.
7) The shadows
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 1
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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.
Author
Series
House of secrets (Chris Columbus) volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
Cordelia, Brendan, and Eleanor Walker, aged fifteen to eight, must rely on a mysterious book to face the Wind Witch and her father, the Storm King, who have kidnapped Dr. and Mrs. Walker and brought them to a strange world of magic.
11) This house, once
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
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.
Author
Series
Green Knowe chronicles volume 4
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
A strange friendship develops between an orphaned Chinese refugee who is spending the summer at Green Knowe and a gorilla who has escaped from the London zoo.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
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.
Author
Series
House of secrets (Chris Columbus) volume 2
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Cordelia, Brendan, and Eleanor Walker, aged fifteen to eight, must rely on a mysterious book to face the Wind Witch and her father, the Storm King, who have kidnapped Dr. and Mrs. Walker and brought them to a strange world of magic.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
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 secrets of the cursed house.
18) The second spy
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 3
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
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.
19) A house
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Bright illustrations paired with interactive call-and-response questions tell of what makes a house a home.