Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Black Authors: Chapter Books & Graphic Novels (SCPL-YS)
Red Carpet Reads RMS 2023
Staff Picks May 2022 - For Kids of All Ages
Red Carpet Reads RMS 2023
Staff Picks May 2022 - For Kids of All Ages
Description
Twelve-year old Joy dreams of writing music for the movies, but first she has to survive her family's move into a small apartment when her father loses his job.
2) Liar & spy
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
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.
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
"For over forty years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite. This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people (including a dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge, a bookie, a burglar, and a bomber) who are invited to the reading of the very strange will of the very rich Samuel W. Westing. They could become millionaires, depending on how they play the game. All they have to do is...
5) Clementine
Author
Series
Clementine volume 1
Language
English
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.
6) Happy cat
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The joys of giving and receiving are celebrated in this story about a cat who seeks shelter on a snowy day.
Author
Series
Minerva Keen volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Minerva Keen forms a detective club to uncover who is poisoning residents of her storied Chicago apartment building, knowing that any one of her neighbors could be the poisoner--or the next victim"--
Author
Series
Great pet heist volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Mrs. Third Floor visits and reports paranormal activity on the fifth floor, Butterbean and the other pets set out to find the truth and save Mrs. Third Floor from being scammed by professional ghost hunters.
12) The neighbors
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
As she climbs the seven stories to her own apartment, a little girl imagines what happens behind every door she passes.
13) The archived
Author
Series
Archived novels volume 1
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Formats
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"--
14) Rosa's song
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"A young immigrant from South Korea finds community and friendship in an apartment house filled with other newly arrived kids"--
15) Noisy night
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A clever picture book about a multi-level apartment building's occupants and their many nighttime noises"--
16) The goat
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kid and her family move to an apartment building in New York City, whose eccentric residents include a skateboarding fantasy writer, a guinea pig hoarder, and possibly a goat who lives on the roof.
17) Five stories
Author
Series
Sprout Street neighbors volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the experiences of five animal apartment neighbors on Sprout Street who forge strong bonds of friendship despite their differences.
18) Sylvie
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
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"--
20) The balcony
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
When a little girl moves from her home to an apartment in the city, she takes her plants with her and one by one they grow and bloom and change both her world and the world all around her as she makes a new friend.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase. Submit Request