The Boy Who Drew Birds by Jacqueline Davies

Science-loving Jessie just wants to construct the best bridge she can for the competition next month, yet she is stuck in the wrong summer camp, surrounded by kids who believe fairies are more real than physics and a group of girls who tortured her back in second grade. Natural-born leader Evan, who is always good at making new friends, discovers he is at the mercy of a bully on the summer school playground, and is pressured to act in a way he never has before. Yet for all their skills and talents, both find themselves being singled out this summer for reasons beyond their control. Evan and Jessie Treski have waged a lemonade war, sought justice in a class trial, unmasked a bell thief, and created a professional magic show. How they find their way forward makes for a timeless story about the power of courage and kindness. In this gripping, funny addition to the bestselling Lemonade War series, both Jessie and her brother Evan find themselves unexpectedly cast as outsiders. Will Alice be able to unravel the mysteries of the House and find her forever home. Three ghosts have been watching, and they need Alice’s help to solve their unfinished business.

Is there a heartbeat coming from the House’s walls? Is someone looking at her? Soon she realizes she’s not alone.

The once-grand mansion, now dilapidated and condemned, beckons Alice it's the perfect new repair job! As Alice begins to restore the House to its former splendor, she senses strange presences. After all, who needs a permanent home when you’re a whiz at fixing things? But when Alice arrives at her new home, she can’t take her eyes off the house next door, the stately dark house that hulked in the dimming light. She’s lived in so many houses, each more broken than the last, that home to Alice is nothing more than a place you fix and then a place you leave.

But can a house have a heart of its own? Ten-year-old Alice is moving for the eleventh time.

In this not-so-scary ghost story from Jacqueline Davies, bestselling author of the Lemonade War series, quirky, tool-wielding Alice Cannoli-Potchnik begins to repair the dilapidated mansion next door-only to discover the old house is home to ghosts, and they need mending, too! Home is where the heart is.

The Boy Who Drew Birds by Jacqueline Davies