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22) Roof octopus
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Hearing a soft tapping on her bedroom window, young Nora is surprised to be greeted by a large, neighborly octopus from the roof of her apartment building who helps residents wash their cars and weed their window boxes before mysteriously going missing on Show-and-Tell day. Simultaneous eBook.
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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.
24) The goat
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Kid and her family move to an apartment building in New York City, whose eccentric residents include a skateboarding fantasy writer, a guinea pig hoarder, and possibly a goat who lives on the roof.
25) Superduper Teddy
Author
Series
Riverside Kids volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Encouraged by his gregarious sister and his trusty Superman cape, five-year-old Teddy takes his first steps toward independence.
Author
Series
Riverside Kids volume 5
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
[1983]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Five-year-old Russell goes to nursery school and has various adventures which show he is growing up, but sometimes he wishes he could still stay home like his baby sister.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Elle falls in love with Frank, the neighbor who helps her adjust to being on her own in a big city, but learning that he is transgendered turns her world upside-down.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In the middle of the night, a chain reaction of noises wakes the residents of an urban apartment building, and then lulls them back to sleep"--
Author
Series
Mimi's world volume 1
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Mimi and her cat Marvin must adjust when an unexpected new neighbor moves into the Periwinkle Tower"--
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Twelve-year old Joy dreams of writing music for the movies, but first she has to survive her family's move into a small apartment when her father loses his job.
32) Sylvie
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Appears on list
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"--
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lucy and her little brother, Zach, collect unusual and commonplace items from the park. Their neighbors are impressed when they set up a natural history museum in the basement of their apartment building, hoping that Mrs. Blankenship will not find out and spoil their fun.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After discovering a ghost in his apartment, twelve-year-old Danny and his friends traverse Brooklyn's diverse neighborhood together to learn the spirit's origins and bring it to rest.
Author
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Living with his mother in a Berlin apartment house, Rico, a young boy with ADHD, enjoys playing detective games but when his friend Oskar suddenly disappears, possibly taken by a serial kidnapper, Rico determines to use his skills to find his friend.
Author
Series
Otis Dooda volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Every day, 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.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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.
38) The balcony
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When a little girl moves from her home to an apartment in the city, she takes her plants with her and one by one they grow and bloom and change both her world and the world all around her as she makes a new friend.
39) Happy Cat
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The joys of giving and receiving are celebrated in this easy-to-read story about a cat who seeks shelter on a snowy day.Shivering, Cat jumps into the basement window of a small apartment building. As Cat makes his way up to a top-floor garret, Dog gives Cat a book, Rabbit gives him a plant, Bird gives him a painting, and Elephant gives him a hot drink. Cat is happy! Everyone is happy!Cutaway views of the building with each character cozy in his apartment...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, Penguin Young Readers Group, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
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?
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