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1) 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.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
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 starts to dig...
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.
Author
Series
Riverside Kids volume 1
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
1976.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Relates the adventures of an inquisitive little girl who lives in a large apartment building in New York with her parents and little brother Teddy.
Author
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
Miss Malarkey volume 1
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
[1995]
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
44 Scotland Street volume 1
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Pat rents a room from the handsome and cocky Bruce, at 44 Scotland Street, and discovers that she has also acquired some colorful new neighbors, including Domenica, an eccentric widow.
11) Cuckoo feathers
Author
Series
Simply Sarah volume 2
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When two pigeons that Sarah wants as pets move from her Chicago apartment's window ledge to the building next door, Sarah tries to figure out how to get them to come back.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning, bestselling novelist and travel writer Colin Thubron returns to fiction with his first novel in more than a decade, a searing, poetic masterwork of memory. A house is burning, threatening the existence of its six tenants--including 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...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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
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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