Books with title The Brown House

...Time travel was never this inconvenient – or terrifying. Holly and Callum have to cope with a dangerous old book, a witch (perhaps) and worst of all, the cold-eyed Hermetic Doctor of Wigtown: Jared Sliddery, inhabitant of The Crow House...The Crow House is a new mystery/horror novel for children aged 9 to 12. Drenched in atmosphere, it shifts with pace and real disturbance through both time and place. Holly Berry is thirteen and has no mum. Callum Murray is twelve and has no dad. But their parents Stan and Liddy are keen to live together. Holly finds herself dropped off to spend some summer weeks with her new family in their old house and bookshop in Wigtown, while her dad sorts out the sale of his business.Wigtown is Scotland’s Book Town: a Georgian village by the sea with a wide street lined with bookshops. Holly finds Wigtown a bit quiet, but believes Liddy is likely to be good for her dad. Callum is another matter – hostile and unfriendly, and Holly finds she is largely left on her own to take rides on Liddy’s old pony, Drum.But all is not as quiet as it first appears. Slowly Holly and Callum find themselves drawn into sometimes exciting, sometimes terrifying, time-slip adventures. Through a series of accidents and coincidences, they become aware of very different lives in No. 71 North Main Street – or The Crow House, as it was once known.

In the tradition of Virginia Lee Burton's The Little House comes a heartfelt story about a father and son learning to accept the new while honoring and celebrating the old.For as long as he can remember, Leo has lived in the blue house with his dad, but lately the neighborhood is changing. People are leaving, houses are being knocked down, and shiny new buildings are going up in their place. When Leo and his dad are forced to leave, they aren't happy about it. They howl and rage and dance out their feelings. When the time comes, they leave the blue house behind--there was never any choice, not really--but little by little, they find a way to keep its memory alive in their new home.

When their parents are sent “up the river” for embezzlement, Ray and Ivy are left to live in the lap of luxury with Marietta Noland and her ancient husband, Lionel. But life at the big house is not all it's cracked up to be. First there is the shrouded portrait, then there is the spider in the decaying wedding cake. And what about the vicious instrument Marietta uses to decapitate her egg? When "the rain in Spain" begins to fall (in other words, Ray wets his bed), things go from bad to worse and Ivy knows it is time to take matters into her own hands. What follows is a hilarious lark as Ray and Ivy case the joint, get the skinny, and show Marietta she has met her match.

2015 Purple Dragonfly Awards - Honorable Mention!Theo and Audrey discover their new home is full of wonders. But one door leaves them in a strange and empty land from which they must embark on a desperate journey back—a journey that will not only reveal their deepest fears, but take them beyond their wildest dreams.The Big House is a roller-coaster ride of spills, thrills, and runaway trains. It’s a story that will leave children of all ages marveling at the wonder of life and the adventure of living loved.

“I will be the one to break you, to remake you,” the iron-masked scientist tells Charlie while he’s held captive in the seventh chamber. In the last book of the, Final Form series, Charlie is struck by horrific dreams and visions of the 7 House. Iron-masked scientists attempt to force him to transform into something unknown by applying something they call, Deliverables. Meanwhile, thanks to a rag-tag group of street kids, Charlie survives his plunge into the freezing ocean. Samantha and Luca, however, are nowhere to be found and as his father’s terrors over the city grow more and more deadly his chances of seeing them alive again become slimmer by the minute. When everyone around Charlie starts to turn into zombies, he seeks shelter in a safe haven known only as the Domain Underground. As Charlie fights with the Domain Underground rebels against his father’s evil creation of clones, he gets closer and closer to uncovering the truth of the 7 House and the answers to what his Final Form will be. Soon, Charlie discovers a whole new layer to his father’s twisted plans. A final war is brewing between Charlie and all the rebels, against his father’s wicked army. Charlie must make the ultimate sacrifice to save his new species and the human race.

When their parents are sent "up the river" for embezzlement, Ray and Ivy are left to live in the lap of luxury with Marietta Noland and her ancient husband, Lionel. But life at the big house is not all it's cracked up to be. First there is the shrouded portrait, then there is the spider in the decaying wedding cake. And what about the vicious instrument Marietta uses to decapitate her egg? When "the rain in Spain" begins to fall (in other words, Ray wets his bed), things go from bad to worse and Ivy knows it is time to take matters into her own hands. What follows is a hilarious lark as Ray and Ivy case the joint, get the skinny, and show Marietta she has met her match.