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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From the UK Children's Laureate comes a spellbinding YA novel in verse blending the ancient myth of Theseus and the Minotaur with the quest of a modern-day teen in search of his father. Theo, a seventeen-year-old London schoolboy with a single mother, is desperate to track down the father who left them, whom he scarcely remembers. At school he discovers Greek mythology and the ancient story of Theseus, a fatherless son driven on a similar search....
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"After a tumultuous childhood, Christa Liddle has hidden away, both figuratively and literally. Happily studying sea snails in the middle of the Indian Ocean, Christa finds her tranquil existence thrown into chaos when her once-famous father--long thoughtdead after a plane crash--turns out to be alive, well, and ready to make amends. The world goes wild, fascinated by this real-life saga, pinning Christa and her family under the spotlight. As if that...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When Dad forgets to check on Bunny one night, Bunny gets up to check on Dad.
"Bunny can���t sleep because Dad forgot to check on him, so he sets out to check on Dad. Bunny should be sleeping, but instead, he is waiting for Dad to come check on him. Dad always checks on him, but tonight, Dad is late. Soon Dad will come. He will come in the night to check on his little Bunny. Come on, Dad! Check on me, check on me, check on me! Bunny can���t...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In this final middle grade novel by Newbery Award–winning author Patricia MacLachlan, a young girl tries to untangle her love of baseball from her complicated relationship with her professional pitcher father. Lucy's father is a minor league baseball player, a professional pitcher hoping to get called up to the majors, and Lucy inherited his passion for the game. But she's never played pitcher. She worries her skills would be compared to her dad's...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A perfect picture book about perseverance, overcoming challenges, and working hard to achieve your goals! Sydney learns to conquer her fear of public speaking at school, in this affectionate father-daughter story referencing inspiring role models who dealt with similar issues. Sydney wants to be a great leader when she grows up. There’s just one problem—when she tries to speak in front of the class, she gets nervous, and the words just won’t...
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Mathematical genius Dr. Meg Brightwood has just completed her life's work-a proof of a problem so impenetrable it's nicknamed the Impossible Theorem. Reclusive and burdened by anxiety, Meg has long since been dismissed by academia. Now everyone wants toget their hands on what she alone possesses-especially her own mathematician father. Having grown up a prodigy in a field plagued by sexism and plagiarism, Meg opts for a public presentation so there...
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A teenage girl and her gangster father embark on a road trip toward revenge in this award-winning coming-of-age Argentinian noir. Fifteen-year-old Ámbar has never known any parent other than her father, Víctor Mondragón, nor any life other than his. On any given Friday night, Ámbar longs to be at the arcade or a rock concert, but she's more likely to be patching up Víctor's latest bullet hole in a dingy motel or creating a new set of fake identities...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The debut of a dynamite new voice from the South, Love and Hot Chicken is a spicy and hilarious Tennessee story about family, friendship, fried chicken, and two girls in love. The Chickie Shak is something of a historical landmark. Red clapboard walls, thriving wasp population, yard-toilets resplendent with sunflowers. My best friend Lee Ray and I used to come after our softball games and snag a picnic table while our mammas ordered the home team...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A woman is pulled into a love affair with a radical activist, unknowingly echoing her family's dangerous past and risking the foundations of her future in this electrifying novel. "An exhilarating novel of star-crossed romances and radical politics, with writing so evocative I swear I could smell the tear gas."—Nathan Hill, New York Times bestselling author of The Nix and Wellness Minnow has always tried to lead the life her single father modeled—private,...
10) Just try it!
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Phil tries to introduce his daughter Lil to all different kinds of cuisine at the food truck festival, but Lil is hesitant to try anything new until he reminds her to keep herself open to new possibilities and to try things at least once.
"Phil has one rule about food: try everything at least once. Otherwise, how will you know what you like? His daughter Lil disagrees. She already knows what she likes—just bread and pasta with no sauce—and that’s...
11) Blood truth
Author
Series
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When a long-hidden safe unlocks clues about why his father was kicked off the police force twenty-seven years ago and then spiraled into an early drunken death, Rick determines to find the truth even if it proves the one thing he's always feared.
"Lefty Award finalist and a top pick by Bookreporter for Best Mysteries of 2017 Rick Cahill can't escape his past—or his father's Rick Cahill has long feared the truth about his own blood—the blood of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A memoir about a daughter trying to understand her father's genius, mental illness, violence, and past. Touches on Japanese culture, immigration, racism, WWII, and the Asian American experience"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Celebrate Dad's special day with this inspirational Berenstain Bears gift book—it's perfect for the Papa Bear in your life! Show Dad just how much he means to you with this cute and kind Berenstain Bears gift book. With fun, colorful illustrations and simple words of wisdom, this charming keepsake is a great way to show parents, grandparents, soon-to-be dads, uncles, friends, or whomever you call "Dad" just how much you care".--
Author
Publisher
Twisted Pen Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023
Language
English
Description
Some secrets never die. A daughter's sin may be the only thing that can expose the truth.
Madison Moore has been estranged from her family for years, but when her dying father summons her home, she reluctantly makes the trip back to the place that still evokes heartache. Her family's reception is lukewarm. They still hold the strict religious beliefs that cast her out. But when her father tells her about a murder years before and that he has proof...
15) Gut reaction
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Tess Medina is dealing with the loss of her beloved father, a new school, and the troubling fact that the thing she enjoys most in life, baking, seems to be making her increasingly ill--something she is trying to hide from everybody.
"Critically acclaimed, bestselling author and Newbery Honor-winner, Kirby Larson, and her daughter, debut author, Quinn Wyatt, pen this gorgeously moving and often funny story that explores what living with a chronic...
Author
Publisher
HarperTempest
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Sent to counseling for hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered to keep a journal, sixteen-year-old Nick recounts his relationship with Caitlin, examines his controlling behavior and anger, and describes living with his abusive father.
''Don't miss this timely contemporary young adult novel from Alex Flinn, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beastly, about a teenage boy's struggle to break free from the cycle of abuse. "Gripping." —Publishers...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The body in the snow is that of Ben Wylie, the heir to America's second-wealthiest business dynasty, and it is found in a remote patch of northern Canada. Far away, in post-crash New York, Jamie Cabot, the son of the Wylie family's housekeepers, must figure out how and why Ben died. He knows the answer lies in the tortured history of the Wylie family, who over three generations built up their massive holdings into several billion dollars' worth of...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A heartwarming tale of a girl waiting for her beloved Papá to return when the monarchs fly south to their home in Mexico. Lucía loves to watch the monarchs' migration from her home in Mexico with Papá. But this year, the monarchs' journey north holds extra weight; Papá is heading north, too, to look for work. He promises her that when "the weather turns cold and the monarcas return, our winged ancestors will guide me home." So while he spends...
19) Abigail
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Gina, the spoiled daughter of a Hungarian general, rails against being sent to boarding school far from Budapest when war breaks out, but finds help in a statue of Abigail and her new "sisters."
''Abigail, the story of a headstrong teenager growing up during World War II, is the most beloved of Magda Szab©đ's books in her native Hungary. Gina is the only child of a general, a widower who has long been happy to spoil his bright...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"Lucy, a spirited French-Ojibwe orphan, is sent to the stormy waters of Lake Superior to live with a mysterious family of lighthouse-keepers - and, she hopes, to find the legendary necklace her father spent his life seeking. Selena Lucy Landry (named for a ship, as every sailor's child should be) has been frightened of the water ever since she lost her father at sea. But with no one else to care for her, she's sent to foster with the Martins - a...
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