boardinghouses

James "Brother" Longstreet Sayre, living with his mother and sister in their run-down boardinghouse in Snow Hill, Alabama, in 1937, learns a lot about himself as well as the ways of the world when he meets Champion Always Luckey, an African-American boy his age who has been sent from Detroit to stay with his aunt.

Thirty-eight-year-old Jeremy Pauling, having spent his entire life on the top floor of his mother's Baltimore row house, is drawn out of his self-imposed isolation when his mother dies and he rents out rooms to a young woman and her child.

In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, twelve-year-old Clara finds a baby left on the doorstep of her family's boarding house, and sets out to unravel the surrounding mysteries.

A collection of six novels that describe the experiences of Kit Kittredge, a young girl living through the Great Depression.

College student David Rain travels with his girlfriend and professor to the Arctic, where they must stop an ancient race called the Fain from awakening Gawain, a dormant dragon with the potential to change the environment.

Sophie the spider makes wondrous webs, but the residents of Beekman's Boarding House do not appreciate her until at last, old and tired, she weaves her final masterpiece.

Henry, an orphan, shares a dreary existence with the other boarders at his Aunt Agatha's house, but their lives change for the better with the arrival of Harvey Angell.

Frank tries to find the perfect birthday present for eighty-year-old Mrs. Kazinski.

When her grandmother decides to ditch assisted living and start a boarding house, fourteen-year-old Amanda Jane Keeling, or Rebel, signs on for the work crew, where she just happens to meet a teenaged boy taller than she is and to embroil them both in a mystery.

While visiting his friend Jeannie's eccentric Aunt Rosebud in a boarding house that may be haunted, ten-year-old Chad comes across a mystery involving a missing diamond bracelet.