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The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.

While sorting through difficulties in her friendship with her neighbor Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine gains several unique hairstyles while also helping her father in his efforts to banish pigeons from the front of their apartment building.

A portrait of India featuring four characters who must survive the oppression, poverty, and mistreatment of Indira Gandhi's India of the mid 1970's. Two are tailors who are forcibly sterilized, one is a student who emigrates, and the fourth is a widowed seamstress who decides to hang on. A tale of cruelty, political thuggery and despair by an Indian from Toronto, author of Such a Long Journey.

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.

Cat makes new animal friends as he climbs higher and higher in an apartment building.

Follows the lives of the residents of an Edinburgh boarding house.

Describes a day in the life of the children, animals, parents, and babysitters in a small red brick apartment building.

"In the microcosm of 44 Scotland Street, all of life's richness is found in the glorious goings-on of its residents. There's Domenica, whose anthropological training has honed her observations of her neighbors; Matthew, whose growing triplets are more than a handful; Bruce, whose challenge as ever is thinking of anything but himself; and Big Lou, who may just have found her shot at romance. And of course, there's young Bertie Pollock, whose starry-eyed...

Finnigan, a Secret Service squirrel in training, reports on the unusual activities in the apartment building across from his park.

A first-grade boy is shocked, then pleased, when he discovers that his teacher has a life away from school.