A hermit crab who has outgrown his old shell moves into a new one, which he decorates and enhances with the various sea creatures he meets in his travels.

While the library that Sam and his adventurous friend Sarah live in is being renovated, the two mice try to make new homes for themselves in the attic, constructing everything from a yurt to a geodesic dome. Includes photographs of real house styles discussed and a brief glossary of terms.

"All 12-year-old Marinka wants is a friend. A real friend. Not like her house with chicken legs. Sure, the house can play games like tag and hide-and-seek, but Marinka longs for a human companion. Someone she can talk to and share secrets with. But that's tough when your grandmother is a Yaga, a guardian who guides the dead into the afterlife. It's even harder when you live in a house that wanders all over the world . . . carrying you with it. Even...

While renovating her house, Sarah McKinley finds the remains of dozens of bodies that are linked to current missing-persons cases as well as a long-ago murder, which points toward a killer who has the ability to transcend time.

A dangerous accident prompts a family's relocation to a gothic seaside house, the site of an infamous murder 15 years earlier, where a wife and mother struggling with depression investigates rumors about the killer's parole. -- After her mother's death, Sarah spirals into depression and overdoses on sleeping pills. Patrick decides the family need a fresh start and he knows just the place: the idyllic family home where he was raised has recently...

Jeremy's teacher tells him he belongs in a zoo, but when she pays a home visit she learns how close that is to the truth as she sees the floormingos, a refrigergator, armapillows, and other living things that make up his house.

A boy imagines the best house in the world for him with lots of fun animals and even the opera!

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

Explore this quirky house, full of funny animals to find, flaps to lift, and sliders to open.