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English
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From one of the most consistently astute and engaging social commentators of our day comes another look at the tough and tender women of New York City — this time, through the lens of where they live. 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...
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English
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Arriving in Paris to stay with her brother Ben, Jess learns that he has gone missing, and to find him, starts digging into his life, realizing even though she has come to the City of Lights to escape her past, it's his future hanging in the balance.
8) 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.
9) Noisy night
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A multi-level apartment building's occupants and their many nighttime noises.
10) 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
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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.
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 10
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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While Matthew and Espeth forge ahead with parenting energetic triplets, young Bertie outwits his domineering mother, Big Lou continues to search for love and the clever canine Cyril settles into the routines of newlywed life.
12) The wool cap
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A mute building superintendent cares for an abandoned young girl, together they overcome many personal demons.
Series
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 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.
15) The goat
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
As Kid soon discovers, a goat on the roof may be the least strange thing about her new home in New York, whose residents are both strange and fascinating.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Rosie and Chad Lowan receive life-changing news: Chad's late uncle has left them his luxury apartment at the historic Windermere. With its prewar elegance and impeccably uniformed doorman, the building is the epitome of old New York charm. At first, the building and its eclectic tenants couldn't feel more welcoming. But as the Lowans settle into their new home, Rosie starts to suspect that there's more to the Windermere than meets the eye. Why is...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In nineteenth-century New York City, when Pa brings home a young turkey in hopes of saving money on their Christmas dinner, his family faces all sorts of trouble--and expense--in their tiny apartment.
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Kayla and Mateo enjoy passing drawings of dinosaurs to each other across the clothesline that runs between their apartment windows, but when the clothesline is taken down, the two children must find a new way to keep their story--and friendship going"--
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