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 of the grand New York apartment house The Dakota, leads to a job offer, her world is suddenly awash in possibility--no mean feat for a servant in 1884. The opportunity to move to America, where a person can rise aboveone'sstation....

Otis Dooda's adventures in a New York City apartment building continue as he gets baby carrots jammed up his nose while competing against Sid Frackas for the title of the greatest Lego genius who ever lived.

A cat adjusts to its new home in an apartment, high above the ground, after living in a house.

When the elevator in a building in the 1950s is modernized, a young resident misses the operator.

The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.

A picture book about a multi-level apartment building's occupants and their many nighttime noises.

The continuing adventures of Edinburgh's beloved characters, many of whom are in the midst of new beginnings, including Bertie, who's been thinking that he might want to start over with a new family and so puts himself up for adoption on eBay.

Hamweenie the cat dreams of fame, but is continually brought back to reality by the torment of his life in an apartment.

"In the middle of the night, a chain reaction of noises wakes the residents of an urban apartment building, and then lulls them back to sleep"--

After a neighbor in her apartment building dies, ten-year-old Lily tries to find homes for his four ugly, noisy cats.