The Best Books About Apartments for Kids

On a rainy afternoon, two brothers follow a harmonica through their building, door by door, to find out who is playing.

Sixteen tenants of Sunset Towers are named heirs to a fortune, paired off, handed a set of clues, and told that one of them is a murderer.

The power goes out on a hot summer night, and one Brooklyn apartment building ends up on the roof together.

Omu’s thick red stew smells so good that the scent drifts out her window, and all afternoon her doorbell keeps ringing.

Five siblings have eleven days to talk their landlord out of evicting them from the Harlem brownstone they have lived in all their lives.

On a summer night on a Harlem rooftop, eight-year-old Cassie lifts off and flies over the city.

Clementine’s dad manages their apartment building, which is how she ends up conducting a war against pigeons and a haircut emergency in the same week.

One cry in the night wakes a baby, who wakes a dog, who wakes the whole red brick building floor by floor.

Walter jumps on his bed, goes through the floor, and keeps going — collecting a neighbor from every apartment on the way down.

After a fire takes everything, a girl, her mother, and her grandmother fill a jar with coins until it can buy one big comfortable chair.

Newly moved into a Brooklyn apartment building, Georges is recruited by a boy in the building to spy on the mysterious tenant upstairs.

Every floor of the building is making a racket, and every tenant is convinced the noise is coming from upstairs.

Nine-year-old Peter lives in a New York apartment with his parents, his turtle, and a two-year-old brother who is a walking disaster.

Five apartments, five animal families, one very busy building — and a different story hidden in every window.

Five sisters share a Lower East Side apartment in 1912, where dusting is a game and a library book can start a crisis.