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Author
Series
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Appears on list
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...
2) Clementine
Author
Series
Lexile measure
790L
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
3) 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.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Simon is ready to make the Tangerine Pines his forever home, but when a robbery occurs in the apartment building, he and his new friend set out to solve the case and keep his family from moving again.
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
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kayla and Mateo enjoy passing drawings of dinosaurs to each other across the clothesline that runs between their apartment windows, but when the clothesline is taken down, the two children must find a new way to keep their story--and friendship going"--
Author
Series
Great Pet Heist volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
490L
Physical Desc
258 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Mrs. Third Floor visits and reports paranormal activity on the fifth floor, Butterbean and the other pets set out to find the truth and save Mrs. Third Floor from being scammed by professional ghost hunters.
9) 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.
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.
11) 23 Crow's Perch
Author
Series
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Middle school student Henry and his mother have just moved to the strange town of Ravens Pass and their new apartment is not only dirty and smelly, it also seems to be haunted by the former tenants.
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!)...
13) Infested
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (7 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's the summer before senior year, and Manny Rivera has just moved from Texas to a luxury condo in the Bronx, New York. After Manny strikes up an unlikely friendship with Mr. Mueller, the building's exterminator, he comes to the terrifying realization that Mr. Mueller actually died decades ago in a fire exactly where Manny's new building is located. A fire that Mueller set. Now, Manny must rescue his family from a deranged specter.
14) 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.
15) One-third nerd
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Liam and his two younger sisters, precocious third-grader Dakota and second-grader Izzy, who has Down syndrome, face the possibility of losing their beloved dog, Cupcake, who keeps urinating on their apartment's carpet.
17) The goat
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Lexile measure
590L
Physical Desc
155 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Kid accompanies her parents to New York City for a six-month stint of dog-sitting and home-schooling, she sees what looks like a tiny white cloud on top of their apartment building. Rumor says there's a goat living on the roof, but how can that be?"--
19) 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.
20) April's kittens
Author
Language
English
Description
Three new kittens are too many for a one-cat apartment, but Daddy finds a solution to the problem.