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Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 660L
Physical Desc
34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
In nineteenth-century New York City, when Pa brings home a young turkey in hopes of saving money on their Christmas dinner, his family faces all sorts of trouble--and expense--in their tiny apartment.
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 9
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2015, 2013.
Physical Desc
295 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Newlywed painter and sometime somnambulist Angus Lordie might be sleepwalking his way into trouble with Animal Welfare when he lets his dog Cyril drink a bit too much lager at the local bar. On the cusp of his seventh birthday, the long-suffering Bertie has taken to dreaming about his eighteenth, when he will be able to avoid the indignity of unwanted girl attendees and the looming threat of a gender-neutral doll from his domineering mother, Irene....
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
215 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Otis Dooda's adventures in a New York City apartment building continue as he gets baby carrots jammed up his nose while competing against Sid Frackas for the title of the greatest Lego genius who ever lived.
87) Tiger trouble!
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Lexile measure
AD 560L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Jack and his tiger Lily live happily in an apartment building in the city, until a new landlord with a dog takes over and orders Lily to leave.
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
Español
Description
Walter lives near the top floor of a tall apartment building, where one night his habit of jumping on his bed leads to a tumultuous fall through floor after floor, collecting occupants all the way down.
89) Fishbowl
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A goldfish named Ian is falling from the 27th-floor balcony on which his fishbowl sits. He's longed for adventure, so when the opportunity arises, he escapes from his bowl, clears the balcony railing, and finds himself airborne. Plummeting toward the street below, Ian witnesses the lives of the Seville on Roxy residents. There's the handsome grad student, his girlfriend, and the other woman; the construction worker who feels trapped by a secret;...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Staying in his Nana's apartment while his mother is away, young Oscar helps tend a thriving flower garden that he then shares with neighbors in his community.
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
500L
Physical Desc
72 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A chapter book about a young girl, Esme, who is off to plan her own birthday party with the help of the eclectic neighbors who reside in her apartment building."--
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
301, 16 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Vishnu, the ood-job man in a Bombay apartment block, lies dying on the staircase landing. Around him the lives of the apartment dwellers unfold: the warring housewives on the first floor, lovesick teenages on the second, and the quietly grieving widower on the top floor of the building. In a fevered state Vishnu looks back on his love affair with the seductive Padmini and wonders if he might actually be the god Vishnu, guardian of the entire universe."...
100) The day I lost you
Author
Publisher
Bookouture
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 20cm
Language
English
Description
You only let her go for a second& Now shes gone. Erika Rice is in an elevator with her four-year-old daughter Alice when it stops on the wrong floor and her little girl runs out. The doors close before Erika can follow, and the daughter she loves more than anything is suddenly nowhere to be seen. Erika cant bear the thought of her daughter in danger or afraid, and will do anything to get her back. But with no sign of Alice, Erika has no idea where...