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42) Neighbors
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
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.
Author
Series
Great pet heist volume 2
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2011.
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.
47) One-third nerd
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
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.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
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.
49) The balcony
Author
Publisher
Simon & 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.
Author
Language
English
Description
A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past, in a thriller by the New York Times best-selling author of Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six. Rosie and Chad Lowan are barely making ends meet in New York City when they receive life-changing news: Chad's late uncle has left them his luxury apartment at the historic Windermere in glamorous Murray Hill. With its prewar elegance and impeccably uniformed doorman, the building is the epitome of old New...
Author
Series
Minerva Keen volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Minerva Keen's life isn't exactly normal. But living in the luxurious Arcanum - with its interior balconies perfect for playing tag, an elevator like an iron birdcage, and quirky neighbours behind every apartment door - is more fun than normal. Until her neighbours start getting poisoned. Anyone could be next, and everyone is a suspect, including Minerva herself. To clear her name and help the police crack the case, Minerva starts her own detective...
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Lucy and her little brother, Zach, collect unusual--and commonplace--items from the park and their neighbors to 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
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A house is burning, threatening the existence of its tenants: a failed priest; a naturalist; a neurosurgeon; an invalid dreaming of his anxious boyhood; and their landlord, whose relationship to the tenants is both intimate and shadowy. At times, he shares their preoccupations and memories. He will also share their fate. As the tenants' diverse stories take us through an African refugee camp, Greek Orthodox monasteries, and the cremation grounds of...
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
An English couple's life in Saudi Arabia told through the eyes of Frances, the wife. She describes the heat, the ugliness and the menace of Islamic law. Men stroll in the street with rifles and from the apartment upstairs comes sobbing. It is nothing her Arab friends tell her, simply a millionaire's mistress, but Frances knows they are lying. Finally, there is murder.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ruby grew up the super's daughter in the basement of an Upper West Side co-op that gets more gentrified with each passing year. Her friendship with Caroline, the daughter of affluent tenants, and the neighborhood's location brought certain advantages. Ruby took out loans to attend a prestigious small liberal arts college but now is no closer to her dream job and is forced to move back in with her parents. Tonight Caroline is throwing a party in her...
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Twenty-seven-year-old Zephyr Zuckerman, a tenant in her parents' Greenwich Village apartment building, boasts a BA worth a hundred grand, a fantasy life that rivals Walter Mitty's, a doozy of an ex-boyfriend obsession, and an inability to commit to a career. So when the superintendent of her brownstone is arrested, her parents suggest that she take over his duties. Less than thrilled with the latest blow to her ego, Zephyr contends with her new responsibility...
60) The ice house
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Spring has arrived, and yet an unyielding winter freeze has left Louisa snowed into her apartment building for months with parents coping with extreme stress, a little brother struggling with cabin fever, and--awkwardly--her neighbor and former close friend, Luke. The new realities of this climate disaster have not only affected Louisa's family, but when Luke's dad has an ice-related accident and it's unclear if he'll recover, both families' lives...
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