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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"--
22) Seven stories
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A girl in a seven-story apartment building has trouble sleeping because of her disruptive neighbors, who all seem to be characters from fairy tales.
24) 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
Series
Amazing Hamweenie volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Hamweenie the cat dreams of fame, but is continually brought back to reality by the torment of his life in an apartment.
26) Rosa's song
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When Jae looks out the window of his new home, he wishes he could still see his old village, his old house, and his old friends. But his new apartment feels empty and nothing outside is familiar. Jae just arrived from South Korea and doesn't even speak the new language. Yet, making friends is the same wherever you go and he soon meets a girl with a colorful bird perched on her shoulder. Rosa knows just how Jae feels and the two become fast friends....
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
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 9
Publisher
Anchor Books, a division of Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
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. The longsuffering Bertie, on the cusp of his seventh birthday party, has taken to dreaming about his eighteenth, a time 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...
30) Eddie's kingdom
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After Eddie draws a picture of his apartment building neighbors, they all begin to get along with each other.
31) One Fifth Avenue
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
One Fifth Avenue, the Art Deco beauty towering over one of Manhattan's oldest and most historically hip neighborhoods, is a one-of-a-kind address, the sort of building you have to earn your way into--one way or another. For the women in Candace Bushnell's new novel, One Fifth Avenue, this edifice is essential to the lives they've carefully established--or hope to establish. From the hedge fund king's wife to the aging gossip columnist to the free-spirited...
33) Liar and spy
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
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.
34) 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"--
35) Espresso tales
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 2
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Between glances in the mirror, vain Bruce contemplates a new career as a wine merchant. His troubled flatmate Pat finds herself looking for true love at a nudist picnic. Precocious Bertie, now six years old, prepares for kindergarten despite the horror of being forced to wear pink overalls. Meanwhile, his domineering mother Irene and his psychotherapist Dr. Fairbairn struggle with dark secrets as Bertie plots his rebellion against them.
Author
Series
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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"--
"James Patterson has just created the most spine-tingling, creepy-crawling, giggle-producing kid’s detective club ever. That’s ever. Living in the luxurious Arcanum building—with its interior balconies perfect...
37) The hubbub above
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sydney's new elephant neighbors make a lot of noise upstairs, but she does not mind as much after she is invited to their parties.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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.
''Award-winning author Gillian McDunn pens a delightfully quirky mystery that examines the meaning of home, perfect for fans of The Vanderbeekers series. Simon's family is always on the move. Every few months, they load up their van,...
39) 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.
40) Infinite home
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The story of an ad hoc family and the crisis they must overcome together.
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