janitors

After her older brother dies, orphaned Teru Kurebayashi comes to depend on an anonymous friend, "Daisy, " with whom she communicates by text messaging. After breaking a window at school, Teru agrees work for the school custodian, Kurosaki, to pay for the damage, and she soon learns that Kurosaki is a demanding taskmaster who is hiding a secret, but he always seems to be near when Teru needs help.

Simple text and color photos explore the work that custodians do, showing custodians in schools, stores, and other settings.

Apartment superintendent and aspiring actress Dana Coakley's life takes an unanticipated turn when she agrees to help a student she tutors at an alternative school who is implicated in a crime. Dana suspects that arson, not her student, is to blame when a home for low-income families mysteriously burns to the ground killing children and firefighters.

After relating all of the horrible things the school custodian, Fester Smudge, is known to have done, a student whose locker won't open needs Mr. Smudge's help.

The Keepers of the School and the evil janitors Lyman and Wally are at their final showdown--the school will either be a pile of rubble in the end, or the Keepers will have unlocked the secrets in the heart of the school and kept it standing.

To make friends at his new school, Jeremy causes all kinds of messes for the new janitor; but he learns that popularity is not everything, especially when it hurts the ones he loves.

Fourth-grade detective Chet Gecko and his associate Natalie Attired investigate a series of mishaps that all seem to point to the school janitor.

When she overhears one of the tenants in her apartment building verbally abusing the hard-working caretaker, Mr. Egozian, Hazel Green determines to find a way a to teach the unpleasant tenant a lesson.

Justin has lost the hat his grandmother made for him, and if he is to find it in time for her visit he will have to go talk to Mr. Rumkowsky, the gruff old school custodian in charge of the Lost and Found.

Fourth-grade detective Chet Gecko and his associate Natalie Attired investigate a series of mishaps that all seem to point to the school janitor.