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"Avid baker Zoe Washington receives a letter on her twelfth birthday from her biological father, who is in prison for a terrible crime"--

The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job--Résumé de l'éditeur. Littérature de jeunesse en langue anglaise.

A little girl and her father tour a dark, mysterious house, eventually revealved to be a "Halloween House."

After a young girl finds two old potatoes at her father's house, they plant and tend them to see if they will have new potatoes in September.

Little Pyn finally persuades her gruff father to find the perfect Christmas tree in the snowy forest and, after bringing it home, decorates it with him.

As a girl and her father run errands in their old blue pickup, she discovers how many different ways they can use their truck.

Forbidden to ride after her mother's death in a riding accident, thirteen-year-old Lily nurses her mother's beloved horse, Astra, back to health, hoping that someday Astra will win the Tevis Cup endurance race.

Zita, cast aside by her father and raised as a kitchen maid, learns when she is nearly twelve that she is a princess and that her twelve sisters love her, and so when she discovers they are victims of an evil enchantment, she desperately tries to save them. Inspired by the Grimm fairy tale, "The twelve dancing princesses."

One summer day, while her friends are on vacation and her father is busy, a girl is kidnapped by a villain and looks forward to an adventure, but the villain turns out to be an ordinary child cruncher, and easily outsmarted.

When her eight-year-old neighbor is stricken with polio in 1955, eleven-year-old Laurie discovers that there is power in her imagination as she weaves a story during her visits with him and other patients confined to iron lung machines.