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"Father asks Olivia for help with a model house he is trying to sell. Will Olivia's special touch be enough to impress the client."--Publisher.

"Children will be utterly absorbed by this journey through the history of architecture, from the earliest mud huts to today's soaring towers.

An engaging introduction to buildings, with a deft mix of nonfiction and fiction elements.

Uses rhyming text to follow different construction vehicles, including bulldozers, diggers, and trucks, as they build a group of houses.

Robert and his friend Charlie are proud of their fathers, who are working on the construction of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.

Introduces numbers and subtraction as the reader counts construction equipment from ten to one.

"Little Green only knows one word: 'Go!' It's the perfect thing to get the construction site moving, but how will they stop?"--Provided by publisher.

Sixth-grader Hal gets a year-long journal-keeping assignment in his least favorite class, history, much to the delight of his history buff father.

Asks the reader a series of yes or no questions as Ollie gets dressed, spends a day at school, and returns home.

When twelve-year-old Phoebe Plumm and her father are abducted by his employer, The Foundry, a corporation holding a monopoly on metal production and technology, and taken to a savage world of livin

Doug the robot discovers that cities are much more than downloaded facts when he unplugs from the computer feed and explores one first-hand.

Fairies Sylva Bell and Poppy Flower are overjoyed when they find Queen Mab's old dollhouse, but as the two friends play with it, they start to unlock its secrets and discover its special magic

When a friendly hedgehog visits the farm, the chickens build an enormous wall to keep out "prickly invaders."