dwellings

A child visits a friend who lives in a topsy-turvy house.

Journeying through a dark, dark house, a black cat surprises the only inhabitant of the abandoned residence.

When Alena and her family move onto new farmland out on the prairie, they must live at first in the chickenhouse because there is no time to build a house before winter; then with the warm weather comes the excitement of watching the big new house go up.

As an African-American boy and his white friend watch the construction of a house which will make them neighbors on the site of a Civil War battlefield, they agree that their homes are monuments to that war.

Describes the challenges that American settlers faced when they left the farms and towns in the East in their Conestoga wagons and headed for the prairie. Provides a record of pioneer tools, homes, and daily life that testifies to the indomitable spirit of the early settlers.

In this story told mostly through letters, children's book author, I. B. Grumply, gets more than he bargained for when he rents a quiet place to write for the summer.

Describes the homes, customs, and habits of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century North American settlers.

Presents an introduction to the home, in simple text with illustrations, as a young girl describes the different rooms of the house she lives in with her family.

A wise man tells Ming Lo how to move the mountain away from his house.

Just before leaving with his family for the move to their new home, Little Bear says goodbye to all his favorite places in and around his old house.