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Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an unexpected inheritance gives Greg Heffley's family a chance to make big changes to their house, they soon discover that renovations may not be worth the effort.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Quirky, tool-wielding Alice Cannoli-Potchnik begins to repair the dilapidated mansion next door--only to discover the old house is home to ghosts, and they need mending, too"--
Ten-year-old Alice is moving for the eleventh time. She's lived in so many houses, each more broken than the last, that home to Alice is nothing more than a place you fix and then a place you leave. After all, who needs a permanent home when you're a whiz at fixing things?...
Author
Series
Mr. McGreely volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Having worked all summer at keeping bunnies out of his garden, Mr. McGreely looks forward to a peaceful winter--if only he can keep those naughty bunnies from invading his home.
Author
Series
Minerva Louise volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A hen has fun exploring the house with the red curtains.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Owl and Rabbit are good friends and neighbors atop a hill, but when Rabbit's garden blocks Owl's view of the forest Owl builds a higher house, which prevents sunlight from reaching Rabbit's plants.
10) A willing murder
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Sara Medlar is a household name in romance, with millions of books sold. But lately, retirement has been boring her and she's found herself back in her hometown of Lachlan, Florida, remodeling the grand old mansion she'd admired as a child. It's much too big for her alone, but she'd die before letting anyone in town know that. Then Sara's niece Kate is offered a job in Lachlan - a start in what could be a very successful career in real estate. She...
Author
Language
English
Description
How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled father-in-law...
12) Don't tempt me
Author
Series
Guthrie brothers volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jason Guthrie has no time for entanglements- between helping out his widowed brother and teenage nephew and getting his hometown back on its feet, his days are spoken for. But his nights are another story... And when his lovely new neighbor, Honor Brown, reluctantly accepts his help in remodeling her house, Jason finds himself wishing his handyman skills could knock down the defenses she keeps building around herself.
13) The fixer upper
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Andrews's latest Southern charmer begins with junior lobbyist Dempsey Jo Killebrew in the crosshairs of a political bribery investigation. Suddenly unemployed and the victim of a sleazy smear campaign by her former boss, Dempsey decides to take up her father's offer of flipping a recently inherited family home in Guthrie, Ga. As it turns out, the house needs much more than a fresh coat of paint, and Dempsey's ornery cousin and her dog are squatting...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The husband-and-wife stars of the popular "Fixer Upper" television program share the story of their life together, from how they met in Waco, Texas to their success as entrepreneurs and television personalities.
16) The therapist
Author
Language
English
Description
"The multimillion-copy New York Times bestselling author B.A. Paris returns to her heartland of gripping psychological suspense in The Therapist--a powerful tale of a house that holds a shocking secret. When Alice and Leo move into a newly renovated house in The Circle, a gated community of exclusive houses, it is everything they've dreamed of. But appearances can be deceptive... As Alice is getting to know her neighbours, she discovers a devastating...
Author
Publisher
Pebble, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"What is your home like? Is it big or small? Is it made of concrete, straw, wood, or clay? Step inside homes from around world and see how different people live in this engaging series that develops kids' understanding of our diverse global community and their place in it"--
18) Farmhouse
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A farmhouse provides the setting for a dozen children to live and grow, and when they leave, another family arrives to fill the house with love again.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the unexpected death of her husband, Ivy tackles home-improvement projects in her beautiful historic bungalow and uncovers details about the lives of five remarkable women who inhabited her home over the last century.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Johnny, who lives in Arizona but feels a special connection to his grandfather's 265-year-old farm house in Washington, Connecticut, is overjoyed when his family spends Christmas there.
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