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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...
4) Happy Cat
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Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Cat makes new animal friends as he climbs higher and higher in an apartment building.
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Series
You're invited to a creepover volume 15
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Every home has its secrets. For Nora, the truth starts to be revealed on Halloween night. It's been a bad few months for Nora Wilson. There was a huge fire in her family's apartment this summer, and her parents have been acting superweird ever since. They won't let her or her brother out of the apartment anymore, not even to go to school. So when Nora's parents say she can go trick-or-treating on Halloween, Nora is thrilled. And she's even more thrilled...
6) Fishbowl
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A goldfish named Ian is falling from the 27th-floor balcony on which his fishbowl sits. He's longed for adventure, so when the opportunity arises, he escapes from his bowl, clears the balcony railing and finds himself airborne. Plummeting toward the street below, Ian witnesses the lives of the Seville on Roxy residents.
8) Noisy night
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A clever picture book about a multi-level apartment building's occupants and their many nighttime noises"--
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English
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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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Series
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.
11) Clementine
Author
Series
Clementine volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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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.
12) Winter candle
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Publisher
Creston Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"When each family at the diverse Juniper Court apartment complex needs something to light up the dark of winter, the stumpy, lumpy candle provides a glow brighter than the fanciest taper, revealing the true spirit of each holiday it illuminates"--
13) Sylvie
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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"--
14) The guard
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Publisher
MacLehose Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
High-Rise Private Eyes volume 6
Publisher
Live Oak Media
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The High Rise Private Eyes, animal detectives, try to find the cat who stole their neighbor's binoculars.
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Edmond Bigsnout, a lone wolf, sets out to satisfy his craving for a city rabbit, his efforts are foiled by apartment dwellers who think he is a new neighbor.
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After discovering a ghost in his apartment, twelve-year-old Danny and his friends traverse Brooklyn's diverse neighborhood together to learn the spirit's origins and bring it to rest.
Author
Series
Esme! volume 1
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A chapter book about a young girl, Esme, who is off to plan her own birthday party with the help of the eclectic neighbors who reside in her apartment building."--
19) The ice house
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Spring has arrived, and yet an unyielding winter freeze has left Louisa snowed into her apartment building for months with parents coping with extreme stress, a little brother struggling with cabin fever, and--awkwardly--her neighbor and former close friend, Luke. The new realities of this climate disaster have not only affected Louisa's family, but when Luke's dad has an ice-related accident and it's unclear if he'll recover, both families' lives...
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A taut new psychological thriller from the Edgar Award-nominated author of The Wicked Girls Alex Marwood's debut novel, The Wicked Girls, earned her lavish praise from the likes of Stephen King, Laura Lippman, and Erin Kelly, and was shortlisted for an Edgar Award. Now Marwood's back with a brilliant, tightly paced thriller that will keep you up at night and make you ask yourself: just how well do you know your neighbors? Everyone who lives at 23...
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