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Serafina and the Black Cloak

"Feeling strangely lonesome, she turned away from the forest and gazed back at the estate. The moon rose above the steeply pitched slate roofs of the house and reflected in the panes of glass that domed the Winter Garden." —Serafina and the Black Cloak by Robert Beatty

Diary of a Mad Brownie

"We will maintain order and cleanliness in the household we inhibit, as is good and right. FOR ARE WE NOT BROWNIES?" —Diary of a Mad Brownie by Bruce Coville

I SPY … houses!

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I SPY … house guests!

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.

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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

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

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.

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