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Banks, Lynne Reid. The Indian in the Cupboard.
When a nine-year-old boy receives a plastic Indian, a cupboard, and a little key for his birthday, he finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes to life! First in a series. (Juv Fic SF)

Cassedy, Sylvia. Lucie Babbidge's House.
Having found a dollhouse full of dolls, Lucie creates a secret life for herself in the orphanage where she leads an unhappy existence. (Juv Fic)

Clapp, Patricia. King of the Dollhouse.
A miniature royal family moves into the dollhouse of an only child and keeps her company during the summer. (Juv Fic SF)

Curry, Jane Louise. Mindy's Mysterious Miniature.
A young girl finds an old dollhouse with unsuspected magic powers. (Juv Fic)

Godden, Rumer. The Dolls' House.
The activities, sorrows and joys of a family of hundred-year-old dolls living in a Victorian dollhouse and of the two little girls to whom they belong. (Juv Fic)

Godden, Rumer. Home is the Sailor.
Through a series of unusual circumstances, the missing sailor men of the doll family are reunited with their relatives. (Juv Fic)

Godden, Rumer. Miss Happiness and Miss Flower.
A shy little girl's ambition to construct a proper house for two Japanese dolls results in new friendships and closer family ties. (Plans for the dollhouse are included.) (Juv Fic)

Godden, Rumer. Little Plum.
Nona and Belinda (from Miss Happiness and Miss Flower) work to become friends with the rich, new girl next door when they learn she has a Japanese doll. (Juv Fic)

Hope, Laura Lee. The Bobbsey Twins at London Tower.
While visiting England, the twins halt a thief's plans to steal the crown jewels from the Tower of London. (Juv Fic M)

Martin, Ann M. The Doll People.
Little girl doll Annabelle has lived with her family for 100 years, coming to life when no people are around. When the plastic Funcrafts move in, Annabelle Doll and Tiffany Funcraft risk Permanent Doll State when they try to find Annabelle's long-lost Aunt Sarah. (Juv Fic SF) (Followed by The Meanest Doll in the World)

McDonough, Yona Zeldis. The Dollhouse Magic.
During the Depression, intrigued by the beautiful dollhouse they see in a window, sisters Lila and Jane befriend its elderly owner and ultimately have a very different Christmas. (Juv Fic)

Moxley, Lucina Ball. The Mexican Dollhouse.
Nancy and Katie befriend new girl Rosalinda and learn about Mexican culture through Rosalinda's beautiful Mexican dollhouse. (Juv Fic)

Stover, Marjorie. Midnight in the Dollhouse.
Set in the 19th century, a family of dolls and their house help renew nine-year-old Melissa's interest in life after she is badly injured and confined to bed for four months. (Juv Fic M) (Followed by When the Dolls Woke)

Turner, Ann Warren. Finding Walter.
Eight-year-old Emily draws her sister Rose and her parents into her efforts to find the youngest of a neglected family of dolls in her grandmother's old country house. (Juv Fic)

Wright, Betty Ren. The Dollhouse Murders.
A dollhouse filled with a ghostly light in the middle of the night and dolls that have moved from where she last left them lead Amy and her sister to unravel the mystery surrounding grisly murders that took place years ago. (Juv Fic M)

Making Dollhouses

Cummings, Richard. Make Your Own Dollhouses.
Instructions for building dollhouses in various styles, including a basic house, a Cape Cod, a Colonial, a Victorian, and an apartment building. (j745.592)

Davis, Harry. Tasha Tudor's Dollhouse: A Lifetime in Miniature.
See the magical miniature world of Tasha Tudor, the beloved children's book author and illustrator, who created an exquisite, breathtakingly detailed dollhouse. (j745.592)

Dodge, Venus and Martin. The Dolls' House Do-It-Yourself Book.
Learn how to build and furnish dollhouses. (j745.592)

Greenhowe, Jean. Making a Victorian Dolls' House.
Make a three-story dollhouse in the Victorian style with period furniture and fittings and a family of miniature dolls. (j745.592)

Jacobs, Flora Gill. A World of Doll Houses.
A history of dollhouses that people have built, used and valued through the centuries. (j745.592)

Roch, P. K. Dollhouse Magic.
Directions for making simple furniture for miniature dolls. (j745.592)
Schleicher, Robert H. Dollhouses & Dioramas.
How to build, finish or renovate dollhouses with kits and ready-made parts. (j745.592)

Picture Books

Hoffman, Elizabeth Stokes. Miss Renee's Mice.
When Miss Renee's exquisite dollhouses become homes for a group of mice, she tries to get rid of them.
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Potter, Beatrix. The Tale of Two Bad Mice.
While the dolls are away, two curious, naughty mice explore the dolls' house and steal their furniture. ( j )

Turner, Ann Warren. Secrets from the Dollhouse.
A series of poems describes the lives of a family of dolls and their servants living in a dollhouse in a young girl's room. (j811.54)

Winthrop, Elizabeth. Tough Eddie.
Although Eddie appears to be a tough kid, he also plays with a dollhouse, a secret he feels he cannot reveal even to his closest friends. ( j )

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5/18/05
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