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2) Clementine
Author
Series
Clementine volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
The paranormalists volume 1
Publisher
Darby Creek
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When popular, pretty classmate asks best friends Jinx and Jackson, high school sophomores, to investigate a haunting at her father's apartment, Jackson is sympathetic and convinces Jinx to trust him, despite her skepticism about Emily's true intentions.
5) Liar & spy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Walter lives near the top floor of a tall apartment building, where one night his habit of jumping on his bed leads to a tumultous fall through floor after floor, collecting occupants all the way down. Walter has been told not to jump on the bed, but he just can't resist. Higher and higher he bounces until the floor cracks and down he tumbles, bed and all, into the apartment below. And so begins the most exciting nighttime adventure of Walter's life....
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of India featuring four characters. 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.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
As the happily married, innocent and childishly vulnerable Rosemary Woodhouse who gradually becomes a horrific travesty of her former self. Without indulging in gore, violence or gothic melodrama, the author creates the ultimate nightmare: a woman carrying the offspring of Satan. This is no humdrum tale of witches and warlocks, however. Levin brilliantly constructs a tantalizing psychological dimension whereby the reader can never be sure whether...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When a snowstorm keeps thirteen-year-old best friends Olivia, Kate, and Georgia inside their Brooklyn, New York, apartment building on Valentine's Day, they connect with their neighbors by distributing homemade fortune cookies and uncover one another's secrets along the way.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and text follow the story of a six-room Moscow apartment throughout the twentieth century and the family living there, as their personal upheavals and accomplishments reflect events in Russia and the wider world.
Author
Series
Miss Malarkey volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A first-grade boy is shocked, then pleased, when he discovers that his teacher has a life away from school.
Author
Series
Amazing Hamweenie volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2012.
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 the reality by the torment of his life in an apartment.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
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.
Author
Series
High-rise private eyes volume 2
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The High-Rise Private Eyes, animal detectives, try to find the cat who stole their neighbor's binoculars.
17) Rock patrol
Author
Series
Backpack mystery volume 6
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sisters Steff and Paulie try to stop the vandalism at the apartment complex where their shy cousin is employed as the building manager.
18) Sylvie
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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
Language
English
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Description
"Jess needs a fresh start. She’s broke and alone, and she’s just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn’t sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn’t say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up – to find a very nice apartment, could Ben really have afforded this? – he’s not there. The longer Ben stays missing, the more Jess...