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Author
Series
High-rise private eyes volume 2
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
The high-rise private eyes, animal detectives, try to find the cat who stole their neighbor's binoculars.
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 16
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
As everyone prepares for Big Lou and Fat Bob's wedding, the peace and tranquility of 44 Scotland Street is disrupted by the arrival of domineering Irene, while Bruce, after being struck by lightning, prepares to leave his creature comforts for the monastic simplicity of Pluscarden Abbey, much to his house sitter's delight.
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Description
This is the first survey in many years to explore contemporary apartments not as raw canvases for interior decoration but as a building type of growing significance. An introduction presents the history of multiple-occupancy housing through its most innovative 20th-century exemplars, from the urbane blocks of Auguste Perret and Henri Sauvage in Paris, to the landscaped housing estates of Weimar Germany and the visionary schemes of Le Corbusier. The...
6) Happy Cat
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
Cat makes new animal friends as he climbs higher and higher in an apartment building.
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 5
Description
At 44 Scotland Street, six-year-old Bertie seeks escape in the Cub Scouts; Matthew rises to the challenge of married life; Domenica epitomizes the loneliness of the long-distance intellectual; and Cyril, the gold-toothed star of the whole show, succumbs to the kind of romantic temptation that no dog can resist and creates a small problem, or rather six of them, for his friend and owner Angus Lordie.
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 3
Pub. Date
2007
Description
From the phenomenon Alexander McCall Smith comes the third book in the bestselling 44 Scotland Street series. Domenica Macdonald has left for the Malacca Straits to research the domestic economy of contemporary pirate households. Meanwhile, back in Edinburgh, painter Angus Lordie's dog, Cyril, has been dog-napped, and Pat gets herself caught up in a potential love triangle. Bertie, the six-year-old prodigal son of the insufferable Irene, is accidentally...
Author
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
Viking
Pub. Date
[2010], c2009
Physical Desc
468 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
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.
13) Clementine
Author
Series
Clementine volume 1
Appears on list
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.
14) Anxious people
Author
Description
Looking at real estate isn't usually a life-or-death situation, but an apartment open house becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt down fixer-uppers to avoid the painful truth that they can't fix their own marriage. There's a wealthy bank director who has been too busy to care about anyone else and a young couple who are about...
15) Sylvie
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
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"--
16) Eddie's kingdom
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Description
After Eddie draws a picture of his apartment building neighbors, they all begin to get along with each other.
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
40 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
Lucy and her little brother, Zach, collect unusual--and commonplace--items from the park and their neighbors to set up a natural history museum in the basement of their apartment building, hoping that Mrs. Blankenship will not find out and spoil their fun.
18) The ice house
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 21 cm
Description
As a worldwide, extreme freeze continues, Louisa's family, neighbors, friendships, and schoolwork are all affected, leading her to build a house of ice in the yard to escape.
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
39 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
Lucy and Zach set up a yoga studio in the basement of their apartment building using potted plants from the lobby, door mats taken from various neighbors, and their very limited knowledge of yoga, on a day when snooty Mrs. Blankenship is giving her book club a tour.
Author
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
72 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"Esmae lives with her grandparents on the uppermost floor of the topmost best building. It's her birthday. Mimi and Pipo gave her a beautiful guitar. But they didn't plan a birthday party...With the help of her cat, El Toro, and a lot of help from her neighbors in the topmost best building, the irrepressible Esmae gets the birthday party of her dreams"--
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