hotels and motels

Mona the mouse is precisely the maid they need at the grandest hotel in Fernwood Forest, where animals come from far and wide for safety, luxury, and comfort.

The peaceful winter that Mona the mouse expected at the Heartwood Hotel is disturbed by a difficult guest, food shortages caused by a huge blizzard, and secrets.

When fourteen-year-old Bonnie moves to her cousin's boardinghouse in Seattle in 1918, she learns about life from the boarders and progressive women who live and work there.

"'A Gentleman in Moscow' immerses us in ... the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery"--Provided by publisher.

"Sixteen-year-old Marigold "Goldie" Vance has an insatiable curiosity. She lives at a Florida resort with her dad, who manages the place, and it's her dream to one day become the hotel's in-house detective. When Walter, the current detective encounters a case he can't crack, together they utilize her smarts, skills, and connections to solve the mystery... even if means getting into a drag race, solving puzzles, or chasing a helicopter to do it!"--Back cover.

A reluctant mother to four young geese, grumpy Bruce the bear loses his temper when he migrates home in the spring only to discover that mice have converted his den into a hotel.

"Cassie Tyler's first grade class visits the Animal Inn for their field trip and has a wild time meeting the residents, which include gerbils, dogs, cats, and birds."--OCLC.

After the death of her mother, seventeen-year-old Aubrey and her brother stumble upon Hotel Ruby, a strange yet beautiful place that changes the course of her life forever.

"P.T. and Gloria try to save the Wonderland again by getting a teen singing sensation to shoot a movie at the motel"--.

As the snow stacks higher, Mona the mouse will have to gather friends both old and new to keep the peace, finding help in some of the most unexpected places.