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Author
Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When fifteen-year-old Xander and his family move into an old, abandoned house in the middle of a dense forest outside of a small California town, they discover that not only are some of the rooms portals into other places, but that malevolent forces are at work.
Author
Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 2
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old David and his family search for their kidnapped mother in the many different time period portals of their home, but when a stranger appears and tries to force them to sell the house, their desperation reaches new heights.
3) The shadows
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 1
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Odditorium volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In Victorian England, Grubb, an orphan about twelve years old, escapes his life of drudgery as a chimney sweep's apprentice and finds himself in a very strange house filled with magical objects and creatures, but soon he learns that there are dark forces seeking his new master.
5) Gatekeepers
Author
Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
With their mother still missing after going through a Civil War time portal in their spooky house, and their father in jail under a false accusation, Xander, David, and their younger sister continue to try to bring their mother back, now with the help of an old relative who has turned up unexpectedly.
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 4
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
"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"--
Author
Series
House of secrets (Chris Columbus) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cordelia, Brendan, and Eleanor Walker, aged fifteen to eight, must rely on a mysterious book to face the Wind Witch and her father, the Storm King, who have kidnapped Dr. and Mrs. Walker and brought them to a strange world of magic.
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 6
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The unsuspecting trio at Spence Mansion starts a greeting card company--and winds up on the adventure of a lifetime!"--
Author
Series
House of secrets (Chris Columbus) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Cordelia, Brendan, and Eleanor Walker, aged fifteen to eight, must rely on a mysterious book to face the Wind Witch and her father, the Storm King, who have kidnapped Dr. and Mrs. Walker and brought them to a strange world of magic.
10) Tennyson
Author
Pub. Date
[2009], ©2008
Language
English
Description
After their mother abandons them during the Great Depression, Tennyson Fontaine and her little sister Hattie are sent to live with their eccentric Aunt Henrietta in a decaying plantation house outside of New Orleans.
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In this story told mostly through letters, children's book author, I. B. Grumply, gets more than he bargained for when he rents a quiet place to write for the summer.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
13) The collector
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Josie must discover the connection between a strange house in the woods, her grandmother's stories, and missing children, or risk losing her sister to dark magic.
14) Brightwood
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her mother disappears and a menacing stranger tries to claim her home, Brightwood Hall, for himself, Daisy must use her wits, courage, and help from her imaginary friends to survive.
Author
Series
House of secrets (Chris Columbus) volume 3
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"With their last adventure just barely over, the Walker kids thought life would finally go back to normal. But things don’t remain calm for long... especially when the colossus Fat Jagger turns up in San Francisco Bay--and he’s in danger! With the police closing in, the Walkers must figure out how to save their giant friend. When a frost beast is spotted in Santa Rosa--and more mystical creatures start appearing all over America--it’s soon clear...
18) Dangerous plays
Author
Series
Nancy Drew: girl detective volume 19
Nancy Drew girl detective volume 19
Nancy Drew girl detective volume 16
Nancy Drew girl detective volume 19
Nancy Drew girl detective volume 16
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Nancy Drew and her friends find unexpected trouble when they watch a house in London.
Author
Series
Green Knowe chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Tolly comes to live with his great-grandmother at the ancient house of Green Knowe and becomes friends with three children who lived there in the seventeenth century.
20) Bird
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Miranda, a small, delicate girl easily carried off by the wind, lands at Bourne Manor on the coast of Lake Champlain and is raised by the dour Wysteria Barrows, but she begins to believe rumors that the Manor is cursed and, aided by a new friend and kites secreted in an attic, seeks to escape.
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