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'Please make a list of every possession you consider essential to your life.' The request seems odd, even intrusive -- and for the two women who answer, the consequences are devastating. Reeling from a traumatic break-in, Emma wants a new place to live. But none of the apartments she sees are affordable or feel safe. Until One Folgate Street. The house is an architectural masterpiece: a minimalist design of pale stone, plate glass, and soaring ceilings....

After plummeting through a hole in her backyard and finding herself once again in the room of mysterious jars, eleven-year-old Olive unwittingly releases two of Elsewhere's biggest, most cunning, most dangerous forces.

"A child realizes that while houses around the world may be very different, they are all alike when a friend asks you in"--

A little boy promises his beloved friend, an elderly lady, that one day he will fix up her old house--and his words inspire the other people in the neighborhood to pitch in and get it done.

"A girl must stop the Boogeyman living in her home from stealing her family's warmest memories"--

Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.

With the help of an old man and all of her animals, an old lady realizes that her house is not as small as she thought it was.

Hedgehog is devastated when a tree falls on the perfect spot to build his house, but after a walk, he sees things a little differently.

As Noa searches for a place to call home, the house-sprite meets various animals, each in pursuit of their own ideal dwelling, and extends an invitation to join him on his journey.

Bienvenidos a Lucia's home. Lucia lives in her casa with her big, loud, beautiful familia, and she's going to show you around! From la puerta, where Abuela likes to wave to the neighbors and wait for packages from Puerto Rico or Spain, to la cocina, where Lucia watches her Mama turn empty pots into soups and arroces, to el patio, where Lucia and her cousins (and her cousin's cousins!) put on magic shows, Lucia loves her busy and cozy casa.