I SPY … houses!

Can you spot a book a house on your shelf? Add to our collection in the comments!

Tree Home

I am on my mountain in a tree home that people have passed without ever knowing that I am here. The house is a hemlock tree six feet in diameter, and must be as old as the mountain itself.

My Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George

Book Cover: My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George

Book covers for The Wolf Wilder by Katherine Rundell, A Storm of Strawberries by Jo Cotterill, The Evil Wizard Smallbone by Delia Sherman, Spirit Hunters by Ellen Oh, Very Rich by Polly Horvath, How Tia Lola Came to Stay by Julia Alvarez, The Summer of Moonlight Secrets by Danette Haworth, Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones, and The Bone Garden by Heather Kassner.

Can you spot a book cover with house guests on your shelf? Add to our collection in the comments!

The League of Beastly Dreadfuls

"The front yard of the McCrumpet house was, you see, a veritable minefield of garden gnomes. Mrs. McCrumpet liked to order them from the shopping channel on TV." —The League of Beastly Dreadfuls by Holly Grant

In the Moonlight

“Aye, lad, it’s an inn,” said the ragman, and all at once it came into sight, a ramshackle, three-story house, lit up bone-white in the moonlight.

The Half-A-Moon Inn
Paul Fleischman

Book Cover: The Half-A-Moon Inn by Paul Fleischman

Igraine the Brave

"The castle was not large; it had only a single tower, which leaned over sideways, and the walls weren't much more than two feet thick, but Igraine thought it was the most beautiful castle in the world." —Igraine the Brave by Cornelia Funke

Sinister

It is a common misconception that places that have suffered psychic trauma must look sinister, too, with gaping windows, creaking doors, and walls twisted subtly out of shape. As with people, so with houses—a smiling, innocuous exterior can conceal the blackest heart.

The Creeping Shadow
Jonathan Stroud

Book Cover: The Creeping Shadow by Jonathan Stroud

I SPY … tall houses

Book covers for The Problim Children by Natalie Lloyd, Half a Creature from the Sea by David Almond, The Missing Piece of Charlie O'Reilly by Rebecca K.S. Ansari, The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue, Winterhouse by Ben Gutterson, Horton Halfpott by Tom Angleberger, Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty, Where the Heart Is by Jo Knowles, Liar & Spy by Rebecca Stead.

Can you spot a book with a tall house on your shelf? Add to our collection in the comments!

Stone Fox

"The small building up ahead was Grandfather's farmhouse. When searchlight saw it, she seemed to gather up every ounce of her remaining strength. She forged ahead with such speed that the sled seemed to lift up off the ground and fly." —Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner