Floors

By Patrick Carman,

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The Whippet Hotel is a strange place full of strange and mysterious people. Each floor has its own quirks and secrets. Leo should know most of them - he is the maintenance man's son, after all. But a whole lot more mystery gets thrown his way when a series ofā€¦

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1 author picked Floors as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

AKA a 4th book I wish Iā€™d written, but not sure I could have pulled off the setting. 

Each floor of the Whippet Hotel is wellā€¦ you judge. The floors may be haunted or have caves and ponds or a flying farm or just might be a giant pinball area where the couches act as flippers. That may be intriguing enough, but thereā€™s also a missing owner plus the son of the caretaker (living in the more normal but ultra-cluttered basement) who is given a series of boxes that may help him save everything thatā€™s important in his life.ā€¦

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