The House That Ivy Built Encyclopedia
Cities, states, and towns
Real cities:
- New York City, New York:
Home of Ivy’s original parents (and Ivy’s birthplace!), home of Bailey, Max, Miss Margaret, Robert, and Jared, original home of Keenan and Cecily (still have legal residence there). Much action takes place in NYC, including a whole host of Ivy/Bailey pranks and lots of Ivy hanging out with family and friends.
- Los Angeles, California:
Home of Ruben, Jesse, Todd, and Natalie’s group, and one of Ivy’s permanent residences. In Book 4 Ivy and Ruben move there to start Ruben’s business. Now she has a house there.
- Newark, New Jersey:
Though this city does not host any actual action in the books, Peyton is from there and her parents visit from that city.
Invented cities:
- Ridgefield, North Carolina:
Nina’s hometown. Nina’s family lives there and Ivy visits often, also meeting with Bill, Shelly, Justine, and Ami.
- Wensleydale, New Jersey:
Ruben’s original hometown. Ivy flew there from her house and followed the highway to this college-oriented town and applied for her job.
- Maclaine, California:
The location of Mr. Grant’s Institute. Ivy flies there from L.A. to participate in the contest. Drew is from there.
Unnamed places:
Ivy is not so good with geography and is often rather oblivious regarding the name of where she is as long as she knows how to get back to a familiar place. Thus, filtered through her eyes, many cities, towns, and places are only known to the reader by how they’re important to Ivy.
- “The House That Ivy Built”:
An unnamed place on the coast of Connecticut.
- “Bradleigh’s city”:
Bradleigh is from a medium-sized town in West Virginia.
- “Alix’s city”:
Alix is from somewhere in Wisconsin.
- “Miki’s city”:
Miki is from a college town in northern Massachusetts.
- “Robin’s city”:
Robin is from a small town in Michigan.
- “Skyler’s city”:
Skyler is from a city in Florida.
- “Zeke’s city”:
Zeke is from a city in California.
- “Zoe’s city”:
Zoe is from a city in Florida. This is also where Ivy and Bailey go to school, where Ivy’s friends Nicky, Mandy, and Andrea live, and where Ivy meets Adam and all her other school acquaintances.
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