Akron Public Library

"Moose, Goose, and Mouse ride a loose caboose on their way to finding a new house"--

A hen has fun exploring the house with the red curtains.

They've lost control of the haunted house. Every year, the town of Happy Hills holds its haunted house contest. In a spooky old manor, teams of kids come up with new ways to frighten people. The scariest team wins. This year, however, all the teams are going to lose. Because this year the house itself has awakened...and it won't be happy until it's devoured all the people inside. What started out as a game has turned into something much more deadly....

When the cool and damp bucket he was living in gets thrown away, Frog tries to find another compatible home.

As the years pass a quiet country house is overtaken by the growing city, until the granddaughter of the original homeowner helps to restore the neighborhood to its former beauty.

Enjoying a quiet life of books and lovely views from his hilltop home, a pig is dismayed to encounter an excessively friendly duck who builds an elaborate home obscuring Pig's window and who talks about his numerous athletic exploits.

Donald finds a fixer-upper, but the current tennants don't want to leave.

A young Indian boy, too young to join the older boys in part of the New Year celebration, celebrates his own way with his family.

Young Clod, living in his family's mansion amongst a mass of shifting forgotten items, becomes aware of the items whispering to him and senses a growing storm ahead, needing the help of an orphan servant to unravel the mystery. "Young Clod is an Iremonger. He lives in at Heap House, his family's mansion at the center of the Heaps, a vast sea of lost and discarded items whose ever-shifting masses have been known to swallow people alive. The Iremongers...

Asks readers to think about ways in which the natural world has provided for them, by exploring all the different elements of a house and where each came from, once.