The Apartment House on Poppy Hill Nina LaCour Sonia Albert, Illustrator Chronicle, 2023 128 pages Grades 2-5 Realistic Fiction Three separate, yet connected, stories describe life in an apartment house on a hilly street in San Francisco. Ella has lived at 1106 Wildflower Place her whole life, so when new tenants move into one of the five apartments, she is ready to help. Who better to tell them the rules of the garden, show them around, describe the glitches in their oven and lights, and warn them of the strange noise coming from the apartment across the hall every evening at sunset. Eventually the reader gets to know the other neighbors: the eccentric tea drinking Matilda, the busy dog-loving newly married couple Jacques and Merland, and Ella's moms Abby and Livy. The neighbors the reader does not get to know are the Robinsons, the mysterious recluses who live on the top floor. In fact Ella has never seen them, though not from lack of trying, and evidence of their presence can be found from their marvelous roses in the garden to their mail disappearing. Finally, one fateful day, Ella gets an invitation to the top floor. She will finally get to meet the mysterious neighbors. What will they be like?
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The Apartment House on Poppy Hill Nina LaCour Sonia Albert, Illustrator Chronicle, 2023 128 pages Grades 2-5 Realistic Fiction Three separate, yet connected, stories describe life in an apartment house on a hilly street in San Francisco. Ella has lived at 1106 Wildflower Place her whole life, so when new tenants move into one of the five apartments, she is ready to help. Who better to tell them the rules of the garden, show them around, describe the glitches in their oven and lights, and warn them of the strange noise coming from the apartment across the hall every evening at sunset. Eventually the reader gets to know the other neighbors: the eccentric tea drinking Matilda, the busy dog-loving newly married couple Jacques and Merland, and Ella's moms Abby and Livy. The neighbors the reader does not get to know are the Robinsons, the mysterious recluses who live on the top floor. In fact Ella has never seen them, though not from lack of trying, and evidence of their presence can be found from their marvelous roses in the garden to their mail disappearing. Finally, one fateful day, Ella gets an invitation to the top floor. She will finally get to meet the mysterious neighbors. What will they be like?