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one idea at a time! (5th-8th Grade)
Fridays; Jan. 19, Feb. 16, Apr. 19, May 17; 4:30 p.m. at John and Judy Gay Library (JJGL)
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Wednesdays; 4:30 p.m. at Roy and Helen Hall Library (Hall)
2) Noisy night
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A clever picture book about a multi-level apartment building's occupants and their many nighttime noises"--
Author
Series
Sprout Street neighbors volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Henry, Violet, Emma, Wilbur, and Fernando are neighbors in the same apartment building on Sprout Street. They are also friends, though they have very different personalities. Sharing walls with each other can sometimes bring the unexpected, but these five work together to overcome their differences.
4) Roof octopus
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Nora is the first to notice a very large octopus on top of her apartment building, which proves to be a very good neighbor but leaves all too soon.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Fiona Davis, author ofThe Dollhouse, returns with a compelling novel about the thin lines between love and loss, success and ruin, passion and madness, all hidden behind the walls of The Dakota, New York City's most famous residence. After a failed apprenticeship, working her way up to head housekeeper of a posh London hotel is more than Sara Smythe ever thought she'd make of herself. But when a chance encounter with Theodore Camden, one of the architects...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
It's a special day at 3 Maple Street. It's Little Rabbit's birthday! His mother makes him his favorite breakfast. His sister has drawn him a picture. And, best of all, he's having a birthday party! His friends are invited, his father is decorating, and his mother is baking a cake. But that's not the only thing going on at 3 Maple Street today. The Cat family is moving in upstairs ... the Fox family is having a new baby ... Mr. Owl is trying to sleep...
9) Jungle cat
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Bob is an orange tabby cat with big dreams. He lives in a safe and friendly apartment building with his human, Pippa, but Bob knows he is more than an indoor cat-he's a Jungle Cat! When he sneaks outside to chase after his dream, Bob's adventure suddenly gets too wild. It's a good thing jungle cats know when to ask for help! Vibrantly illustrated with playful depictions of city and apartment life, this is the delightful story of an over-confident...
10) Rosa's song
Author
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"--
11) A new arrival
Author
Series
Sprout Street neighbors volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The animals who live in the apartment building on Sprout Street have a new neighbor, Lily, who just moved in from Hawaii.
12) The hubbub above
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Sydney's new elephant neighbors make a lot of noise upstairs, but she does not mind as much after she is invited to their parties.
13) One Fifth Avenue
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Living within New York City's most elite apartment building, five women pursue relationships and personal dreams amid the social and sexual politics of New York's privileged.
Author
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...
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Newlywed painter and sometime somnambulist Angus Lordie might be sleepwalking his way into trouble with Animal Welfare when he lets his dog Cyril drink a bit too much lager at the local bar. The longsuffering Bertie, on the cusp of his seventh birthday party, has taken to dreaming about his eighteenth, a time when he will be able to avoid the indignity of unwanted girl attendees and the looming threat of a gender-neutral doll from his domineering...
16) Sylvie
Author
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"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Helena is an art deco apartment building that has witnessed the changing face of South Miami Beach for seventy years, observing the lives housed within. Among those who have called apartment 2B home across the decades are a Cuban concert pianist who performs in a nursing home; the widow of an intelligence officer raising her young daughter alone; a man waiting on a green card marriage to run its course so that he can divorce his wife and marry...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
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.
19) Eddie's kingdom
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
After Eddie draws a picture of his apartment building neighbors, they all begin to get along with each other.
Author
Series
44 Scotland Street volume 11
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bertie's mother, Irene, returns from the Middle East to discover that, in her absence, her son has been exposed to the worst of evils-television shows, ice cream parlors, and even unsanctioned art at the National Portrait Gallery. Her wrath descends on Bertie's long-suffering father, Stuart. But Stuart has found a reason to spend more time outside of the house and seems to have a new spring in his step. What does this mean for the residents of 44...
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