Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

When a little boy stops to show a building doorman his new "bot," it floats up out of his hands and the kind doorman runs up to each floor of the building to try and catch it, with help from the building's residents.

Because Nora and her brother live in an apartment, personal privacy, making friends, and finding places to play are sometimes a problem.

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.

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.

Thirteen-year-old Gabe buys a bottle bearing an imp that will grant his every wish, but someone else will pay the price and, if he dies while owning the bottle, he will lose his soul.

"It's Hanukkah, and Max and Rachel are excited to light the menorah in their family's new apartment. But, unfortunately, their Hanukkah box is missing. So now they have no menorah, candles, dreidels, or, well, anything! Luckily, their neighbors are happy to help, offering thoughtful and often humorous stand-in items each night. And then, just as Hanukkah is about to end, Max and Rachel, inspired by the shamash ("helper") candle, have a brilliant idea:...

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.

When Ona and her father move into her Baba's apartment complex, she befriends the ghost she discovers haunting the boiler room, and uses her new ability to see spirits to help her new neighbors face their troubles and free themselves from their specters

Ten-year-old Liam and his two younger sisters, precocious third-grader Dakota and second-grader Izzy, who has Down syndrome, face the possibility of losing their beloved dog, Cupcake, who keeps urinating on their apartment's carpet.

Ms. Taffy has just won a pig. Her pig isn't ceramic but a real piglet. Now Ms. Taffy is faced with a problem. Can a pig live happily in the city? With some help from her neighbors, Ms. Taffy sets out to answer this question.