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21) Saha: a novel
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In her signature sharp prose, brilliantly translated by Jamie Chang, Nam-Joo returns with this haunting account of a neglected housing complex in the shadows of Town: a former fishing village bought out by a massive conglomerate. Town is prosperous and safe-but only if you're a citizen with "valuable skills and assets," which the residents of Saha Estates are not. Disenfranchised and tightlipped, the Saha are forced into harsh labor, squatting in...
22) Rosa's song
Author
Publisher
Random House Studio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A young immigrant from South Korea finds community and friendship in an apartment house filled with other newly arrived kids"--
23) The ice house
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
As a worldwide, extreme freeze continues, Louisa's family, neighbors, friendships, and schoolwork are all affected, leading her to build an icehouse in the yard to escape.
24) Neighbors
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lying in bed, a child reflects on her new apartment, and the neighbors living around and above her, and looks forward to meeting them and her new classmates.
25) Sylvie
Author
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"--
26) Clementine
Author
Series
Clementine volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2006
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.
27) Liar & spy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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
44 Scotland Street volume 10
Language
English
Description
Things are looking up for seven-year-old Bertie Pollock. The arrival of his spirited grandmother and the absence of his meddlesome mother, who is currently running a book club in a Bedouin harem, bring unforeseen blessings: no psychotherapy, no Italian lessons, and no yoga classes. Meanwhile, surprises await Scotland Street's grown-ups. Matthew makes a discovery that could be a major windfall for his family, but also presents a worrisome dilemma....
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This is how it begins. With a near-empty building, the inhabitants forced out of their homes by property developers. With two women: idealistic, impassioned blogger Ella and seasoned campaigner, Molly. With a body hidden in a lift shaft. But how will it end?
32) One Fifth Avenue
Author
Publisher
Voice
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
One Fifth Avenue, the Art Deco beauty towering over one of Manhattan's oldest and most historically hip neighborhoods, is a one-of-a-kind address, the sort of building you have to earn your way into--one way or another. For the women in Candace Bushnell's new novel, One Fifth Avenue, this edifice is essential to the lives they've carefully established--or hope to establish. From the hedge fund king's wife to the aging gossip columnist to the free-spirited...
33) Maison Ikkoku: 9
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Yusaku gets serious about looking for a job, but only Kyoko believes him when he talks about his future. First he gets a job waiting tables, but finally lands a student teaching position that soon has a googly-eyed student moving into his life and, very sneakily, his apartment.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
When Godai misses an important job interview with Ibuki Yagami's father, Ibuki runs to the Maison Ikkoku and refuses to leave until her father helps Godai get a job. Then, Coach Mitaka's life gets a lot more complicated because of a few lost dogs.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Una serie delirantemente divertida. Únete a las aventuras de la comunidad de vecinos más loca y chismosa que puedas imaginar. Porque todo es mejor cuando estamos... Juntos y revueltos. ¿Quién es Julian Bale, el hombre que vive en el ático del 13 de la calle Cortázar, y por qué nunca se deja ver? Esa es la pregunta que atormenta a los chismosos de su comunidad de vecinos. Incluida a Matty, que, aunque no vive en el edificio, conoce la expectación...
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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
Series
Boxcar children volume 152
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When the Alden siblings visit their grandfather's friend in an apartment building, they begin to wonder about the many mysterious events that keep happening on the thirteenth floor of that building.
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.
Author
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
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Lucy and her little brother, Zach, collect unusual and commonplace items from the park. Their neighbors are impressed when they 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.
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