Tree House Station: A QUIX Book

By Dee Romito and Marta Kissi

The kids of Fort Builders, Inc., hunt for the perfect treehouse tree in the fourth story in the fun-to-read Aladdin QUIX chapter book series that’s perfect for emerging readers!

Caleb and the rest of the Fort Builders, Inc. group feel like it’s finally time to have their own dedicated workspace! Their big idea? A fort treehouse! But finding the perfect tree for their unique fort is a little tougher than they thought...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Aladdin
• Release date: Feb 1, 2022
• ISBN: 9781534452497

Dee Romito

Dee Romito is an author of fiction and nonfiction books for young readers, including the Fort Builders Inc. chapter book series and several middle grade stories. Her debut picture book, Pies from Nowhere: How Georgia Gilmore Sustained the Montgomery Bus Boycott, received a starred review from Booklist, and The Last Plastic Straw: A Plastic Problem and Finding Ways to Fix It was a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. While she does her best to be a grown-up most of the time, giggling with her BFFs is still one of her all-time favorite things. You can visit her website at DeeRomito.com.  

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Cover: Tree House Station, by Dee Romito, illustrated by Marta Kissi

QUIX Fast•Fun•Reads

Fort Builders Inc.

by Dee Romito

Tree House Station

Welcome to ALADDIN QUIX!

If you are looking for fast, fun-to-read stories with colorful characters, lots of kid-friendly humor, easy-to-follow action, entertaining story lines, and lively illustrations, then ALADDIN QUIX is for you!

But wait, there’s more!

If you’re also looking for stories with tables of contents; word lists; about-the-book questions; 64, 80, or 96 pages; short chapters; short paragraphs; and large fonts, then ALADDIN QUIX is definitely for you!

ALADDIN QUIX: The next step between ready to reads and longer, more challenging chapter books, for readers five to eight years old.

Tree House Station, by Dee Romito, illustrated by Marta Kissi, Aladdin

For our sweet Sienna and Smoky, aka Kitti and Mo

Cast of Characters

Eddie Bell: The artist on the Fort Builders Inc. team

Uncle Carter: Eddie’s uncle

Noah: Eddie’s cousin

Kiara Pal: The designer on the Fort Builders Inc. team

Caleb Rivers: The organizer on the Fort Builders Inc. team

Jax Crawford: The builder on the Fort Builders Inc. team

Naiya: Eddie’s sister

Mara: Eddie’s cousin

Mr. Greaves: Caleb’s neighbor

1

The Idea

Eddie Bell had been looking forward to five o’clock.

At five o’clock, the workers across the street stopped hammering, hammering, hammering. He could finally do his artwork in peace.

But it also meant his uncle Carter and his cousin Noah would come over for dinner. They were the ones hammering across the street to fix the Stuarts’ roof.

Eddie couldn’t wait for family dinner. His dad was making a side of homemade mac and cheese, and Eddie had made banana