houses

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.

An English girl, a Polish refugee, and a displaced boy from the Orient explore an island-strewn river flowing past the ancient manor house of Green Knowe.

A history of home design from prehistoric times through the twentieth century, with see-through pages allowing the reader to look inside an Assyrian palace, a French ch?teau, a Mayan village, and a weaver's cottage.

Presents glimpses of the many people who have lived in a room that is once again for rent.

Michael Rogers and Ellie Guteman, a wealthy American oil heiress, meet at Gipsy Acres and marry, despite the warnings of a fortuneteller.