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PreS-Gr 1—Moving houses, like many transitions in a child's life, can stir up powerful feelings. Brown has crafted a touching exploration of one such move as experienced by two closely connected siblings. At the story's start, a brother sits with his apprehensive younger sister on their stoop, gently reminding her of the homes their family has occupied and of the faces, routines, and sensations that went with them: a fifth-floor walkup with endless stair-climbing, a large apartment building with door-to-door trick-or-treating in the hallways, a rowhouse with a secret passage leading to the neighbors' backyard. From these memories, he compile...Log In or Sign Up to Read More