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Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
The winds of change are blowing through Scotland Street. Though Bertie is getting older, he can't resist an adventure to escape his domineering mother, and Bruce, ever the navel-gazer, will have to bring his best self to navigate the complexities of the pas de deux. While Alexander McCall Smith's delightfully warm and witty comedy takes some surprising turns, the improbable adventures of this quirky cast of Scots will affirm the heart and joy in Edinburgh's...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
540L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
As young rabbit siblings excitedly share the news that rats have moved into their building, worried neighbors inform them that rats are dirty, thieving, and destructive--but are they?
63) Neighbors
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Lying in bed, a child reflects on her new apartment, and the neighbors living around and above her, and looks forward to meeting them and her new classmates.
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
Rev. format ed.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Mr. MacDonald, an apartment super, turns his building into a four-story farm with hot and cold running sweet potato vines, ceiling carrots, carpets of cabbages, and other farm produce and animals, prompting all the tenants to move out.
66) Sylvie
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 660L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"A picture book about a surreptitious spider who gathers the courage to help the neighbors she has watched over from afar--a promising painter, a proper little lady, a mindful young man, a brave girl and her exceptionally brave tortoise"--
67) Evan's corner
Author
Pub. Date
1967
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
42 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Needing a place to call his own, Evan is thrilled when his mother points out that their crowded apartment has eight corners, one for each family member.
69) The ice house
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
As a worldwide, extreme freeze continues, Louisa's family, neighbors, friendships, and schoolwork are all affected, leading her to build an icehouse in the yard to escape.
Spring has arrived, and yet an unyielding winter freeze has left Louisa snowed into her apartment building for months with parents coping with extreme stress, a little brother struggling with cabin fever, andawkwardlyher neighbor and former close friend, Luke. The new realities...
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Lexile measure
AD 580L
Physical Desc
1 volume : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
When their apartment burns down and they move to a much smaller place, Mama tells Carla they can't have Thanksgiving, but Carla thinks about all the hardships the Pilgrims faced and figures out a way.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
181 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
When her family temporarily moves into a luxury apartment building in 1904 Manhattan, eleven-year-old Samantha tries to discover whether a series of mishaps is related to a curse on the building's owner.
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 2
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
710L
Physical Desc
167 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"When the 'grownup virus' hits, kids who live in the same apartment building must cope with strange new rules and extended time at home with parents and siblings. And they survive brilliantly, each in their own way. Twin boys throw themselves into an independent research assignment on prehistoric people and embrace their own devolution. A budding track star is encouraged to run laps on his balcony by a neighbor who has a secret crush on him. A classroom...
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Simon Spotlight edition.
Lexile measure
560L
Physical Desc
39 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lucy and Zach set up a yoga studio in the basement of their apartment building using potted plants from the lobby, door mats taken from various neighbors, and their very limited knowledge of yoga, on a day when snooty Mrs. Blankenship is giving her book club a tour" --
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
223 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Everyday, nine-year-old Otis Dooda confronts a series of zany changes when his father's new job prompts the family's move to a New York City apartment, where Otis is cursed by a guy in a potted plant in their apartment building lobby and has to team up with a new friend and a gassy miniature horse to break the curse.
77) Quarantine
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Assigned to spend the night shift with a Los Angeles fire station, television reporter Angela Vidal and her cameraman, go out on a routine 911 call. It takes them to a small apartment building where they find police officers already on the scene in response to blood curdling screams. Something unknown has infected a woman living in the building. After a few of the residents are viciously attacked, the residents of the building, along with the news...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
142 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of full-color plates : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Max is a dog with a perfect life -- he lives in a New York City apartment with his owner, Katie, and has pet friends all over his building. But all that changes when Katie brings home another dog -- Duke! When they get lost in the city, Max and Duke will have to learn to work together to find their way home.