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2) The shadows
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When eleven-year-old Olive and her distracted parents move into an old Victorian mansion, Olive finds herself ensnared in a dark plan involving some mysterious paintings, a trapped and angry nine-year-old boy, and three talking cats.
9) Farmhouse
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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.
10) Jack
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"Young Jack meets a host of animals on his way to ask the king for a house"--
12) A house
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Bright illustrations paired with interactive call-and-response questions tell of what makes a house a home.
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Diverse Books - Latino/Latinx, Hispanic, and Latin American Children
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
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"When Esperanza and her family arrive in the United States from Cuba, they buy a little house, una casita. It may be small, but they soon prove that there's room enough to share with a whole community"--
17) The strangers
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"When something crucial goes missing, eleven-year-old Olive and her friends must decide how to get it back--put their faith in a strange and dangerous magic, their odd new neighbors, or someone more uncertain and terrifying than both"--
18) The second spy
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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.
19) Still life
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"An old magic resurfaces in twelve-year-old Olive's house, and in order to save herself, those she loves, and all of Elsewhere, she must uncover the complex history of this eerie, painted world, its magical origins, and its creator"--
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When Trina and her father move into Goldenrod, an abandoned Victorian mansion, Trina's convinced the place is haunted. And when she finds Augustine, a tiny porcelain doll that belonged to a former Goldenrod resident, Trina realizes the house may be trying to send her a message that could change her life.