Books in Where You Live series

This book takes a simple look at city homes around the world, highlighting the diversity of homes that people live in. Homes featured include houses in Tokyo, US city apartments, UK terraced houses, and many more. Throughout the book, simple leveled text supports bright and engaging photographs, and the book also includes a picture glossary of difficult and important words, and notes for parents and teachers with advice on how to use the book.

This book takes a simple look at rural homes around the world, highlighting the diversity of homes that people live in. Homes featured include traditional ‘Western’ farmhouses, bamboo and grass houses in Indonesia, mud houses in Togo, and houses on stilts in Bangladesh. Throughout the book, simple leveled text supports bright and engaging photographs, and the book also includes a picture glossary of difficult and important words, and notes for parents and teachers with advice on how to use the book.

The Golden Hawks want a clubhouse of their own. But where can they find one in their new housing development on the edge of the city?First they try to make their clubhouse in Joe's bedroom, but their parents get angry when the kids hammer holes in the wall. Then they scare themselves silly looking for scrap wood in an empty--and spooky--apartment building. Finally they try to make money so they can build a clubhouse. Will the Golden Hawks ever have a place to call their own?First published in 1978, The Golden Hawks is an honest and touching look at life on the edge of a Canadian city. A volume in the Where We Live series.

This book takes a simple look at homes that move, highlighting the diversity of homes that people live in around the world. Homes featured include Native American Tipis, Bedouin tents, houseboats, caravans, and more. Throughout the book, simple leveled text supports bright and engaging photographs, and the book also includes a picture glossary of difficult and important words, and notes for parents and teachers with advice on how to use the book.

This book takes a simple look at homes in the past, highlighting the diversity of homes that people lived in around the world at different times. Homes featured include Roman houses, castles, Native American earth lodges, stately homes, and city dwellings from around the world in times past. Throughout the book, simple leveled text supports bright and engaging photographs, and the book also includes a picture glossary of difficult and important words, and notes for parents and teachers with advice on how to use the book.