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2) Liar & spy
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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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English
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For twenty-five years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite and is now being reissued with a brand-new jacket by Kevin Hawkes and an introduction by Ann Durell. This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people who are invited to the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. They could become millionaires, depending on how they play the tricky and dangerous Westing game, which involves blizzards, burglaries,...
Author
Series
Apartment house on Poppy Hill volume 1
Language
English
Description
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.
5) The archived
Author
Series
Archived novels volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"When an otherworldly library called the Archive is compromised from within, sixteen-year-old Mackenzie Bishop must prevent violent, ghost-like Histories from escaping into our world"--
8) Roof octopus
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Nora is the first to notice a very large octopus on top of her apartment building, which proves to be a very good neighbor but leaves all too soon.
9) Noisy night
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
"A clever picture book about a multi-level apartment building's occupants and their many nighttime noises"--
10) The Elevator Man
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Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When the elevator in a building in the 1950s is modernized, a young resident misses the operator.
11) The neighbors
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
As she climbs the seven stories to her own apartment, a little girl imagines what happens behind every door she passes.
12) Olivia Kidney
Author
Series
Olivia Kidney volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Olivia explores her new apartment building and finds a psychic, talking lizards, a shrunken ex-pirate, an exiled princess, ghosts, and other unusual characters.
13) Stop! Bot!
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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When a little boy stops to show a building doorman his new "bot," it floats up out of his hands and the kind doorman runs up to each floor of the building to try and catch it, with help from the building's residents.
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"It's Hanukkah, and Max and Rachel are excited to light the menorah in their family's new apartment. But, unfortunately, their Hanukkah box is missing. So now they have no menorah, candles, dreidels, or, well, anything! Luckily, their neighbors are happy to help, offering thoughtful and often humorous stand-in items each night. And then, just as Hanukkah is about to end, Max and Rachel, inspired by the shamash ("helper") candle, have a brilliant idea:...
17) 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.
20) Rosa's song
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Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"A young immigrant from South Korea finds community and friendship in an apartment house filled with other newly arrived kids"--
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