SOLVED. YA: Two sisters stay with hobbyist doll maker with 4 cats in creepy house? [s]

[Lauren]

I believe it was two sisters, they have to go live with a grandma or aunt or family friend in a creepy house with a witches peak, and there's a locked room or something, and when they investigate they find doll body parts, like doll eyes. They're really creeped out but it turns out the lady they're staying with is really nice. There are four cats named after the Beatles. I forget the rest of the plot..maybe one of the dolls comes alive? Or maybe something to do with immigration and Ellis Island?

[bookel]

Google search:
stay house dolls ellis island immigration kirkusreviews

NYC Historical Fiction Books -- Ellis Island and Immigration
For nonfiction history books about Ellis Island and Immigration go to the Ellis Island History Page ... who has lost his parents in an epidemic and comes to live in her house. ... Description from Kirkus Reviews .... In this first book, we meet Tatiana, a Russian doll who travels to Ellis Island with her owner, a girl named Anya.

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Tatiana Comes to America: An Ellis Island Story
By Joan Holub
Sisters Lila and Rose are spending the year with their eccentric grandmother, who runs a doll hospital. The girls are not pleased with the arrangement, but they begin to enjoy themselves when they learn their grandmother has a special power to "read" the lives of the dolls she is working to restore. In each book, their grandmother tells he girls the story of a different doll. In this first book, we meet Tatiana, a Russian doll who travels to Ellis Island with her owner, a girl named Anya.

Description from Publisher

[Lauren]

You're a miracle worker!