rooms

"Just when Kai thinks he will have to endure a boring summer, he stumbles upon a mysterious room. Kai and his unlikely friend Tiana go on a quest to figure out the story behind it. Their hunt for the truth will lead them down a winding path. What secrets hide at the end?"--Back cover.

Hugh does not like walking home alone through the woods which the other children say is inhabited by a monster, but today he has no choice, and it is not only his shadow that follows him--and that is only one of five scary stories included in this collection.

"The light of the half moon shines down on the half room . . .The half room is full of half things. A half chair, a half cat, even half shoes--all just as nice as whole things. When half a knock comes on half a door, who in the world could it be?"--OCLC.

The author engages in a series of discussions about various historical aspects of ordinary life while wandering from room to room in his Victorian home in England, covering topics such as hygiene, sex, death, nutrition, the spice trade, and other domestic signs of things that occur out in the world.

An alphabet book which features words about different kinds of houses and homes, rooms, and people associated with them, such as the janitor who keeps an apartment building clean and safe.

A collection of writings by authors, fiction and non-fiction, each evoking a memory of home.

Examines the history of domestic life traveling from room to room in a house. For example, the history of hygiene is discussed in the context of a bathroom and the kitchen provides the opportunity to consider topics such as nutrition and food preservation.

An alphabet book which features words about different kinds of houses and homes, rooms, and people associated with them, such as the janitor who keeps an apartment building clean and safe.

The author engages in a series of discussions about various historical aspects of ordinary life while wandering from room to room in his Victorian home in England, covering topics such as hygiene, sex, death, nutrition, the spice trade, and other domestic signs of things that occur out in the world.