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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Jess needs a fresh start. She's broke and alone, and she's just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn't sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn't say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up, to find a very nice apartment, (could Ben really have afforded this?) he's not there. The longer Ben stays missing, the more Jess starts to dig...
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Series
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
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Description
"For over forty years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite. This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people (including a dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge, a bookie, a burglar, and a bomber) who are invited to the reading of the very strange will of the very rich Samuel W. Westing. They could become millionaires, depending on how they play the game. All they have to do is...
3) Other birds
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Down a narrow alley in the small coastal town of Mallow Island, South Carolina, lies a stunning cobblestone building comprised of five apartments. It's called The Dellawisp and it is named after the tiny turquoise birds who inhabit the building, alongside the human tenants, and imbue it with an air of magical secrecy. When Zoey Hennessey comes to claim her deceased mother's apartment at The Dellawisp, she meets her quirky, enigmatic neighbors, including...
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Language
English
Description
"When a chance encounter with Theodore Camden, one of the architects of the grand New York apartment house the Dakota, leads to a job offer for Sara Smythe, her world is suddenly awash in possibility--no mean feat for a servant in 1884. She has the opportunity to be the female manager of the Dakota... and to see more of Theo, who understands Sara like no one else--even though he is living in the Dakota with his wife and three children. One hundred...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Once the center of madness, suicide, mass murder, and whispers of things far worse, the 1800s Gilded Age palace known as the Pendleton, has been re-christened in the 1970s as a luxury apartment building. But now inexplicable shadows caper across walls, security cameras relay impossible images, phantom voices mutter in strange tongues, not-quite-human figures lurk in the basement, and elevators plunge into unknown depths.
Author
Language
English
Description
It's the fall of 1979 in New York City when twenty-three-year-old Anton Winter, back from the Peace Corps and on the mend from a nasty bout of malaria, returns to his childhood home in the Dakota. Anton's father, the famous late-night host Buddy Winter, is there to greet him, himself recovering from a breakdown. Before long, Anton is swept up in an effort to reignite Buddy's stalled career, a mission that takes him from the gritty streets of New York,...
7) Clementine
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
133 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Clementine is having not so good of a week. On Monday, she's sent to the principal's office for cutting off Margaret's hair. Tuesday, Margaret's mother is mad at her. Wednesday, she's sent to the principal... again. Thursday, Margaret stops speaking to her. Friday starts with yucky eggs and gets worse. And by Saturday, even her mother is mad at her. Okay,, fine. Clementine is having a disastrous week!"-- Back cover
8) Liar & spy
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his father's efforts to start a new business, his mother's extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their building.
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Language
English
Description
"Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses to call anyone in her late thirties a 'girlfriend') tells him she's facing eviction, and a teenager shows up at Micah's door claiming to be his son. These...
Author
Language
English
Description
The lives of seven Dublin neighbors become entangled when a sassy and prescient spirit pays a visit to their town house with the intent of changing at least one of them. But whose life will be transformed? Newlyweds Matt and Maeve, facing the first obstacle in their romance; Lydia the brassy cabbie with a passion for her flatmate; Katie the just-turned-forty PR executive; or the eldest resident Jemima currently playing hostess to her son Fionn?
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
AD 490L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 37 cm
Language
English
Description
"A glimpse into a day in the life of the different residents who live alongside one another in an apartment building at 3 Biscuit Street. Centering on the Bunny family, readers will also discover another 11 mini-narratives in the illustrations, where they'll see what the apartment building's other residents are up to on every floor, track the antics of passersby, and observe the Bird family in the neighbouring tree. This multilayered (and multilevel!)...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
As everyone prepares for Big Lou and Fat Bob's wedding, the peace and tranquility of 44 Scotland Street is disrupted by the arrival of domineering Irene, while Bruce, after being struck by lightning, prepares to leave his creature comforts for the monastic simplicity of Pluscarden Abbey, much to his house sitter's delight.
Author
Series
Minerva Keen volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twelve-year-old Minerva Keen forms a detective club to uncover who is poisoning residents of her storied Chicago apartment building, knowing that any one of her neighbors could be the poisoner--or the next victim." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Apartment house on Poppy Hill volume 1
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
125 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Ella considers herself the official greeter, tour guide, and is generally in charge of 1106 Wildflower Place, but the elusive Robinsons who live on the top floor are a mystery--one which Ella is determined to solve, and bring the elderly couple into the community of the apartment building on Poppy Hill.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Pat rents a room in Edinburgh, she acquires some interesting neighbors--including a pushy Stockbridge mother and her talented, sax-playing, five-year-old son. Her job at an art gallery hardly keeps her busy until she suspects one painting in the collection may be an undiscovered work by a Scottish master.
18) Stop! Bot!
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
AD 250L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 x 16 cm
Language
English
Description
When a little boy stops to show a building doorman his new "bot," it floats up out of his hands and the kind doorman runs up to each floor of the building to try and catch it, with help from the building's residents.
19) Roof octopus
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
540L
Physical Desc
1 volume : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Nora is the first to notice a very large octopus on top of her apartment building, which proves to be a very good neighbor but leaves all too soon.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"From her downstairs apartment in suburban London, Emma has often overheard the everyday life of the seemingly perfect family upstairs--Steph, Paul and teenage daughter Freya--but has never got to know them. Until one day, she hears something that seizes her attention: Freya has vanished and the police are questioning Steph and Paul about their life. Do either of you have any enemies? Anyone who might want to harm or threaten you? The effects of Freya's...