Olivia Kidney
Olivia Kidney has just moved to another new apartment building, and Olivia?s the new kid in school, again. Olivia thinks she?s fed up with new places . . . until she gets a look at her building! Sure, it looks normal from the outside, but inside things are crazy. There are talking lizards...
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Olivia Kidney has just moved to another new apartment building, and Olivia?s the new kid in school, again. Olivia thinks she?s fed up with new places . . . until she gets a look at her building! Sure, it looks normal from the outside, but inside things are crazy. There are talking lizards crawling everywhere. An exiled princess haunts the hallways, and Olivia finds one apartment made entirely of glass! She?s meeting fantastical characters and seeing wondrous sights that make Alice?s Adventures in Wonderland seem tame. But among all the ghosts and pirates and princesses, can Olivia find a friend?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780142402344 (0142402346)
Publish date: October 21st 2004
Publisher: Puffin
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Series: Olivia Kidney (#1)
I picked this book up out of our donations and I thought I might read it aloud to Grade 4 and 5, but I'm not sure… It was a very clever book, with excellent plot twists and mystery, but it might be a bit too dark for me to feelcomfortable using it for a read aloud book with my students considering w...
There are few things I like better than when I pick up a book I've only heard of once and know nothing about, and then having low expectations read the whole thing in just a pair of sittings and discover that I absolutely, positively love it. I can't believe this book isn't more well-known. It's not...
I enjoyed this book, which felt very Roller Skates to me, but I think I actually liked Pish Posh a little more. Just personal preference, I think–I happen to not be very keen on ghost stories. But I’ll try the next Olivia book. She’s an interesting character. [Mar. 2010]
Wow. I'm still not sure what I think of this. A little bit of Alice in Wonderland, bizarre characters, very strange apartments, seances, and a surprising emotional depth. It is perhaps most similar to Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters, but it stakes out its own, strange...
I just remembered this book ... someone mentioned it in a goodreads discussion. Haha. I read it a while ago, I think when I was twelve or so. I remember liking it. It had one of those wacky Alice in Wonderland / Coraline atmospheres to it.
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