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Gr 3-6 After losing a number of jobs due to his ineptitude, Olivia Kidney's father has landed yet another position as a superintendent in a New York City apartment building. That means that Olivia is, once again, the new kid. Losing her key one day, she meets the first of a number of the building's unusual residents, who turns out to be a ghost. Like Alice in Wonderland down the rabbit hole, as she travels from floor to floor, the 12-year-old's experiences range from strange to surreal. Be...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

All twenty-four chapters of this novel take place during one day in the life of melancholy twelve-year-old Olivia Kidney, beginning after school when she realizes she has lost her keys. A kind boy, Branwell, who is wearing socks but no shoes in the cold weather, lets her into the building, but she still can't get into her apartment. She visits several different apartments, each strange and threatening in its ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More