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Dido and Pa (Wolves #7) Dido and Pa (Wolves #7) Joan Aiken Dido Twite is finally back home in London and reunited with her old friend Simon, now the Duke of Battersea and a favorite of King Richard. But no sooner does Dido start to settle in than her rascall… OL14851438W
Father's Day Father's Day Anne F. Rockwell For Fathers' Day, the students in Mrs. Madoff's class write and illustrate books about their dads. OL14853913W
Let my people go Let my people go Patricia McKissack The daughter of a free black man who worked as a blacksmith in Charleston, South Carolina, in the early 1800s recalls the stories from the Bible that her father shared with her, relating them to the … OL14860474W
Slalom Slalom S. L. Rottman Seventeen-year-old Sandro, having always lived in poverty with his mother in a wealthy ski resort town, finds his life transformed when the father he has never met suddenly returns and wants to be pa… OL15059798W
I want answers and a parachute I want answers and a parachute P. J. Petersen,Anna DiVito Matt finds his little brother's fears very annoying when they travel from Tucson to San Francisco to visit their divorced father. OL15105094W
Giving thanks Giving thanks Jonathan London A boy's father celebrates the interconnectedness of the natural world through his daily words of thanks and assures his son, who finds it a little embarrassing to thank trees and such, that it become… OL15286886W
The house of sixty fathers The house of sixty fathers Meindert DeJong Alone in a sampan with his pig and three ducklings, a little Chinese boy is whirled down a raging river, back to the town from which he and his parents had escaped the invading Japanese, and spends l… OL15398041W
The boy who drank too much The boy who drank too much Shep Greene The efforts of his friends almost fail to stop a lonely and isolated teenager from destroying himself with alcohol. OL15743400W
Sign language Sign language Amy Ackley Teenaged Abby must deal with her feelings about her father's cancer and its aftermath while simultaneously navigating the difficult problems of growing up. OL16116605W
Calvin Coconut Calvin Coconut Graham Salisbury New fears for fourth-grader Calvin include a school bully named Tito and the return of his estranged father, rock star Little Johnny Coconut. OL16415326W
Amy and Roger's Epic Detour Amy and Roger's Epic Detour Morgan Matson After her father’s sudden death, Amy’s mom has decided to start anew—in Connecticut, just before the start of senior year. And she’s decided that it’ll be Amy’s job to get the car from California to … OL16481740W
The wild man The wild man Mark Barratt In Victorian England, Joe Rat has escaped the clutches of the criminal mastermind, Mother, and is trying to make an honest living in a better part of London, but when a rich philanthropist tracks dow… OL16484302W
A big boy now A big boy now Eileen Spinelli When a young rabbit takes the training wheels off his bike, he learns something surprising about his dad. OL16560401W
Daddies Daddies Janet Frank Vocations and avocations of fathers. OL16603729W
Obsidian mirror Obsidian mirror Catherine Fisher When his father disappears while experimenting with a black mirror that is a portal to both the past and the future, Jake encounters obstacles when he tries to use the mirror to find his father. OL17918613W
Missing Pieces Missing Pieces Norma Fox Mazer As she watches her friends with their fathers, fourteen-year-old Jessie decides the family she shares with her mother and her great-great-aunt is not enough, so she sets out to learn more about the f… OL1841664W
Daddy-Long-Legs Daddy-Long-Legs Marc D. Falkoff A simplified retelling of orphan Judy Abbot's college adventures, which she relates in letters to the mysterious benefactor that she calls Daddy-Long-Legs. OL1917787W
The cloud chamber The cloud chamber Joyce Maynard In 1966, when his father's attempted suicide causes the ostracism of the family in their small Montana community, fourteen-year-old Nate copes with his sadness and anger by trying to win the school s… OL1918153W
Orbiting Jupiter Orbiting Jupiter Gary D. Schmidt Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen.… OL20009051W
Bad dad Bad dad David Walliams,David Walliams,Rita Amaral,Dewi Wyn Williams,Tony Ross Dads come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. There are fat ones and thin ones, tall ones and short ones. There are young ones and old ones, clever ones and stupid ones. There are silly ones and seriou… OL20857673W
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