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1041) The talent thief
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A girl with the ability to borrow other people’s talents must use her powers to find her own spotlight in The Talent Thief, a wish-fulfilling middle-grade novel from Mike Thayer, the author of The Double Life of Danny Day. Tiffany Tudwell is cursed. She once tripped over a backpack and fell face-first into a trashcan. She had pink eye on picture day. One time she tried to hold back a sneeze and farted on the cutest boy in class. She longs for the...
1042) Together we ride
Author
Series
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Learning to ride is no easy feat! But with a little courage, a guiding hand from her dad, and an enthusiastic bark from her pup, one brave girl quickly learns the freedom that comes from an afternoon spent outside on a bike.
Author
Series
Order of Black Hollow Lane volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When Lola is framed for a crime she didn't commit, the Order wants Emmy to give up her secrets about her father ... and if she doesn't someone she loves will pay the price. We were best friends. We still betrayed each other. Trust no one. After spending the summer at home, Emmy cannot wait to return to Wellsworth for the new school year and reunite with her best friends, Lola and Jack. Before she leaves Emmy receives a note from her father telling...
1044) Daddy can't dance
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Katie and her father are invited to a Daddy-Daughter dance, the only problem is that her father is not a good dancer--he frequently steps on his partner's feet.
1045) The traitor's daughter
Author
Series
Veiled Isles trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Spectra Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
1046) Heaven
Author
Series
Casteel family series volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
Follows the experiences of Heaven, one of the very poor Casteel children who are sold to different families by their father.
1047) Angela's glacier
Author
Publisher
Neal Porter Books / Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A girl grows up visiting Sn�fellsj�okull, the glacier near her home, but when preteen life throws her off-center she must reconnect with her icy old friend"--
"Award-winning author Jordan Scott's luminously-illustrated love story of a girl growing up in the shadow of a glacier that's always there to listen. Angela listened to the glacier; the glacier listened to Angela. As soon as she's born, Angela's father introduces her to her glacier....
1048) Joheved
Author
Series
Rashi's daughters volume 1
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
1050) Crescendo
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Nora Grey struggles to face the truth while coping with having a fallen angel boyfriend named Patch and unraveling the mystery surrounding her father's death.
1051) Night whispers
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A wise, lyrical memoir about the power of literature to help us read our own livesand see clearly the people we love most. Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford when she first read Virginia Woolfs modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and in the companionable silence she shared with her father. After his deatha calamity that claimed her favorite personshe returned to that beloved novel as a way of wrestling...
1053) My dad is awesome
Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Licenses, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Everyone loves Bandit, but especially Bluey and Bingo! He's always making up funny games, playing Daddy Robot, and taking them on exciting adventures. This is the perfect book to celebrate your dad on Father's Day, or any day, and share what makes him awesome!
Bluey and Bingo share why their dad is awesome in this hilarious and heartwarming picture book, featuring everyone's favorite Heelers. Based on the on the wildly successful animated series,...
1054) Shylock is my name
Author
Series
Publisher
Published in the United States by Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
Man Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson brings his singular brilliance to this modern re-imagining of one of Shakespeares most unforgettable characters: Shylock Winter, a cemetery, Shylock. In this provocative and profound interpretation of “The Merchant of Venice,” Shylock is juxtaposed against his present-day counterpart in the character of art dealer and conflicted father Simon Strulovitch. With characteristic irony, Jacobson presents Shylock...
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
[1986]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prizewinning novel The Remains of the Day. In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II. Now, as the mature Ono struggles through the aftermath of that war, his memories of his youth...
Author
Publisher
ECW Press, a Misfit book
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Almost immediately upon Julie Birds return to the small port town where she was raised, everyday life is turned upside down. Julies Gulf War vet father, Marty, has been on the losing side of a battle with PTSD for too long. A day of boating takes a dramatic turn when a majestic blue whale beaches itself and dies. A blond stranger sets up camp oceanside: shes an agitator, musician-impersonator, and armchair philosopher named Jennie Lee Lewis and Julie...
Author
Series
Wolfwalkers volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Incorporating exclusive original art, a graphic-novel adaptation of the hand-animated WolfWalkers film follows the story of a hunter's daughter who resolves to protect a pack of endangered wolves and the woodland shapeshifter tribe that communicates with them.
Author
Series
Elements of genius volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When Mary Shelley is kidnapped by a mad scientist, Nikki Tesla and the other members of the Genius Academy team are forced to agree to steal a priceless, lethal high-tech ring in order to free her; but Nikki also plans to use the heist to get closer to her long-lost father who claims he is not the criminal mastermind she believes him to be.
Author
Series
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Life was quiet for Cat (short for Catherine) and her dad until they adopted a cat named Sushi... now things are a bit too exciting! Between turning everything into either a personal scratching post or litter box, and the constant cat and mouse game of 'love me/leave me alone,' Cat and her dad have a lot to learn. It's a hilarious chronicle of daily life of a single parent, a little girl named Cat, and their cat."-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Enslow
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Sarah Wright and her father Ephraim move to Salem Village, Massachusetts, in 1692, where they witness the Salem witchcraft hysteria, during which Ephraim is arrested and Sarah must try to help him escape from jail.
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