A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her.

"Henry is a brilliant engineer who, after untold hours spent in his home laboratory, has achieved the discovery of his career-he has created artificially intelligent consciousness. He calls the half-formed robot William. No one knows about William. Not yet anyway. Henry's agoraphobia keeps him inside the house, and his fixation on William keeps him up in the attic, away from everyone, including his pregnant wife, Lily. When Lily's coworkers show up...

This unputdownable STEAM rhyming read-aloud from a breakbeat poet and playwright shows us that our homes are more than places to live--they are vessels for creativity, joy and imagination.

"It came as no surprise to anyone in Yorktide when glamorous Carol Ascher fled the little Maine town for New York City. While Carol found success as an interior designer, her younger sister, Bonnie, stayed behind, embracing marriage and motherhood. She even agreed to take in Carol's teenage daughter during a tumultuous patch. Now both their girls are grown and Bonnie, recently widowed, is anticipating the day she'll retire to Ferndean House, the nineteenth-century...

Told in alternating timelines, seventeen-year-old Daisy and her mother move into her deceased uncle's mansion, only to find horrors waiting inside, and ten years later, Brittney investigates the mystery behind the Miracle Mansion that turned her mother's life around.

"Every house has a story. This house; an old one hunkered in the deep grass below a wide country sky is a waiting house. Once it was full of laughter and song. The sounds of life rang within its walls. Now it stands quiet and still...New families arrive to look, but none stay. Perhaps the house, too, now belongs to the Long Ago and Used to Be?"--

"Fred Daniels, a Black man, is picked up by the police after a brutal double murder and tortured until he confesses to a crime he did not commit. After signing a confession, he escapes from custody and flees into the city's sewer system."--

"A young chart maker faces a challenge when she is given an assignment to make a chart of her own home"--

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

"After a tough week that includes losing a big job opportunity and being dumped by her long-term boyfriend, Jenna Burke receives word that her beloved Aunt May passed away. Traveling back to her Hawaiian hometown for the reading of the will, Jenna discovers she and her sister have inherited May's dilapidated Victorian home on desirable beachfront land. The sisters can do whatever they want with the property, but there's one catch: the house must...