Compiled by Shelley Headrick

Children’s Department, Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library

Check out these great books available at the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Public Library!

Old House

By Pamela Duncan Edwards
Reading level: PreK–2nd
An old, empty house feels sorry for itself because it has no family living inside, but with the help of some good friends, its dreams come true.

A Kiss Goodbye

By Audrey Penn
Reading level: PreK–2nd
Chester Raccoon is very unhappy about leaving his home, a tree that has been marked by tree cutters, but his mother tries to convince him that their new home might be even better.

Poppy’s Return

By Avi
Reading level: 3rd–5th
Poppy responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.

The Flying Canoe

By Roch Carrier
Reading level: 3rd–5th
Homesick lumberjacks come up with a magical plan to get them home in time to usher in the New Year.

Whittington

By Alan Armstrong
Reading level: 4th–6th
Whittington, a homeless cat, restores harmony to a New England farmyard that is home to a menagerie of animals.

Gib and the Gray Ghost

By Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Reading level: 4th–6th
In 1909, 11-year-old Gib returns to live on the Thornton ranch, where his natural way with horses helps make him feel at home.

The Princess and the Peabodys

By Betty G. Birney
Reading level: 5th–8th
When a medieval princess appears out of a rusty box bought at a yard sale, 14-year-old tomboy Casey Peabody and her family try to figure out how to send her back home.

A House of Tailors

By Patricia Reilly Giff
Reading level: 5th–8th
When 13-year-old Dina emigrates from Germany to America in 1871, she slowly begins to think of Brooklyn as home.

What I Meant

By Marie Lamba
Reading level: 9th–12th
Fifteen-year-old Sang adjusts to sharing her home with her demanding aunt from India.

How to Build a House

By Dana Reinhardt
Reading level: 10th–12th
Seventeen-year-old Harper Evans volunteers to help rebuild a house in a small Tennessee town devastated by a tornado.