With his mother dead, his father gone, and his older brothers and sisters unable to help, eight-year-old Ethan Cooper knows it’s his responsibility to keep him and his younger siblings together—even if that means going to an orphanage. Ethan, Alice, Simon, and Will settle into the Briarlane Christian Children’s Home, where there’s plenty to eat, plenty of work, and plenty of talk about a Father who never leaves. Even so, Ethan fears losing the only family he has. How can he trust God to keep him safe when almost everything he’s known has disappeared? The first book in the Beyond the Orphan Train series, Looking for Home takes us back to 1907 Pennsylvania and into the real-life adventures of four children in search of a true home.

Looking for Home: A Phenomenological Study of Home in the Classroom contains stories of children who seek "a home" in the classroom. The book focuses on the extraordinary in the ordinary moments with children in the day-to-day life in the classroom. Sinclaire blends stories of her classroom with remembrances of children to describe vividly the range of learning possible for children, teachers, and parents when the classroom is viewed as a place for becoming at home in the world, not solely as a place of instruction. She supplements these real-life vignettes with insights into teaching, learning, and caring for children so that they become reflections on teaching sufficiently significant to support other teachers in the narratives of their teaching.

Babies, toddlers and pre-schoolers love to look at the world around them. Each page of this book is packed with quirky, delightful illustrations of familiar objects, which toddlers can point to and name and pre-schoolers can use as an enchanting first step to reading. An enjoyable way of turning looking into learning with Claire Rollet's eye-catching ink drawings.

After living in the country, having to be quiet and follow all the rules of their apartment complex is hard for Micah and Liz, but when they befriend Grandma Jan, a homesick neighbor, Micah is not sure he wants to move to a house again.

A guide for buyers of custom-built homes reveals common problems in home design, relates how to create a user-friendly home, and discusses how to get the best out of a builder or contractor.

Taking an in-depth look at home exteriors in relation to the fundamental concepts of scale, symmetry, and proportion, Eck shows how material, color, and texture can coordinate interior and exterior design to create a lasting impression. Full color.

Looks at some household hazards such as matches, plastic bags, electrical appliances, sharp objects, and suggest ways to make home a safe place. Suggested level: junior.