houses

A girl living in an old house finds clues inside and out about its history and former occupants.

Describes what it would be like to live in a house on a mountain, by the sea, above a bakery, underground, and in other wonderful places.

Describes a house in different weather and light conditions.

Describes how people in different parts of the world build their homes using local materials available to them.

Briefly describes dwellings adapted to distinct climatic and physical conditions such as the igloo, sampan, wigwam, and the apartment house.

Casey Slater thinks she is going to be bored to death when, in the summer before seventh-grade, her parents drag her off to a remote country town where they are going to restore a creepy old house, but things get exciting, and scary, when it starts to look like the house is haunted.

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.

The author-architect paraphrases the traditional rhyme "The House that Jack Built" to celebrate the northeastern Shingle Style home which is his firm's specialty.

Describes in verse the many kinds of homes--holes for worms, swamps for crocodiles, or a cat for fleas.

Joseph and his family did not know how they were going to live in such a small house, until Aunt Bella gave them some very interesting advice.