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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...
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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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44 Scotland Street volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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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.
4) Liar & spy
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2012
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IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
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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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44 Scotland Street volume 5
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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While precocious six-year-old Bertie seeks to escape his overbearing mother by joining the Cub Scouts, Matthew resolves to meet the challenges of married life and Cyril succumbs to romantic temptation.
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High-Rise Private Eyes volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The High Rise Private Eyes, animal detectives, try to find the cat who stole their neighbor's binoculars.
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Fate is on its way to the tenants of 66 Star Street, bringing with it love and tragedy, friendship and heartbreak, and the power to change lives ... One of them is falling in love; another is torn between two lovers. For some, secrets they want to stay buried will come to light and for others the unveiling of those secrets will have tragic consequences.
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MacAdam/Cage Pub
Pub. Date
c2003
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English
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During the summer of 1983 widow Elaine and her two daughters, Hannah and Daisy, try to start a new life in California, living in an apartment complex inhabited by a variety of single mothers and their children called Sunset Terrace.
10) Happy Cat
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Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Cat makes new animal friends as he climbs higher and higher in an apartment building.
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Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Twelve-year-old David sneaks through the ventilation shafts in his London apartment building pulling pranks on his neighbors, which awakens the ghost of a boy with a grudge against the lonely, senile old man who lives upstairs.
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Albert Whitman and Company
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When their apartment burns down and they move to a much smaller place, Mama tells Carla they can't have Thanksgiving, but Carla thinks about all the hardships the Pilgrims faced and figures out a way.
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Paranormalists volume 1
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Darby Creek
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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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.
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Amulet Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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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.
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Jim Qwilleran feline whodunnit volume 11
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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A trip Down Below reunites old friends and spells nothing but trouble for Qwill, Koko, and Yum Yum.
17) The guard
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MacLehose Press
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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In a post-apocalyptic world, security guards Harry and Michel, living in the basement of a luxury apartment building, are charged with protecting its wealthy residents. Over the course of one weekend, all the residents leave-- except for one man on the 29th floor.
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English
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"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 to call anyone in her late thirties a "girlfriend") tells him she's facing eviction, and a teenager shows up at Micah's door claiming to be his son. These...
19) Infinite home
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Edith is a widowed landlady who rents apartments in her Brooklyn brownstone to an unlikely collection of humans, all deeply in need of shelter. Crippled in various ways--in spirit, in mind, in body, in heart--the renters struggle to navigate daily existence, and soon come to realize that Edith's deteriorating mind, and the menacing presence of her estranged, unscrupulous son, Owen, is the greatest challenge they must confront together.
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44 Scotland Street volume 4
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Six-year-old Bertie and artist Angus Lordie join forces to rescue Lordie's beloved dog Cyril from the pound in this fourth charming installment in the bestselling 44 Scotland Street series.
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