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Apartment house on Poppy Hill volume 1
Language
English
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Nine-year-old Ella considers herself the official greeter, tour guide, and is generally in charge of 1106 Wildflower Place, but the elusive Robinsons who live on the top floor are a mystery--one which Ella is determined to solve, and bring the elderly couple into the community of the apartment building on Poppy Hill.
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Series
44 Scotland Street volume 12
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"The latest installment of Alexander McCall Smith's perennially popular and irresistibly charming 44 Scotland Street series. When Pat accepts her narcissistic ex-boyfriend Bruce's invitation for coffee, she has no idea of the complications in her romantic and professional life that will follow. Meanwhile, Matthew, her boss at the art gallery, attracts the attention of the police after a misunderstanding at the local bookstore. Whether caused by small...
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English
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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 starts to dig...
4) Liar & spy
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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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.
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Series
Minerva Keen volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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"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"--
6) Clementine
Author
Series
Clementine volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"No visitors. No nights spent away from the apartment. No disturbing the other residents, all of whom are rich or famous or both. These are the only rules for Jules Larsen's new job as an apartment sitter at the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan's most high-profile and mysterious buildings. Recently heartbroken and just plain broke, Jules is taken in by the splendor of her surroundings and accepts the terms, ready to leave her past life behind. As she...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Meg Julliard returns to her hometown of Chicago to run her late father's apartment building. The building is in rough shape and the tenants are unusual. Ellie is an older woman living in the building but getting ready to move into a nursing home. Both women feel the upcoming holiday will be the worst Christmas ever. Can an unexpected friendship and a dress make for a magical season?
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.
10) April's kittens
Author
Publisher
Harper & brothers
Pub. Date
1940.
Language
English
Description
Three new kittens are too many for a one-cat apartment, but Daddy finds a solution to the problem.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1987]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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.
12) One Fifth Avenue
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English
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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...
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44 Scotland Street volume 3
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
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Follows the lives of the residents of an Edinburgh boarding house.
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English
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"From the beloved and best-selling Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel about misperception, second chances, and the sometimes elusive power of human connection. Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses...
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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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.
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Series
Publisher
Live Oak Media
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Deep in the heart of the city...Miss Nancy saw somebody run off with her binoculars...Where did the thief go? And will she get her binoculars back? This sounds like a case for the High-Rise Private Eyes-Case #002, to be exact, The Case of the Climbing Cat Because no mystery is too mysterious, no puzzle to puzzling, no crime too criminal, no trouble too troubling for ace detectives and very best friends Bunny Brown and Jack Jones. A Live Oak Media...
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Series
44 Scotland Street volume 7
Language
English
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The continuing adventures of Edinburgh's beloved characters, many of whom are in the midst of new beginnings, including Bertie, who's been thinking that he might want to start over with a new family and so puts himself up for adoption on eBay.
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