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101) The shadows we hide
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cub reporter Joe Talbert, Jr. investigates the murder of a man with the same name as him in a small town in Minnesota and discovers the deceased was a loathsome lowlife who may be his father.
102) Down river
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Adam Chase disappears for five years, [returns to Rowan County, and] ... finds himself embroiled in the fight of his life--not just to prove his own innocence, but to reclaim the only life he's ever wanted"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Raj's father signs him up for piano lessons so he can learn to play properly, Raj begins to lose his joy in creating music, and eventually stops playing altogether, but when his father becomes ill, he asks Raj to play again, from the heart.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old James "Hercules" Martino completes twelve tasks while spending two weeks in Baltimore with his Uncle Anthony, and gains insights into himself, his uncle, and his recently deceased father, a self-help author and daytime talk show host who was beloved by the public but a terrible father.
109) Bedtime for Button
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When Button the bear remembers something frightening that happened during the day, he worries that he will have bad dreams until his father gives him something nice to think about--the day he was born.
Author
Publisher
Barnes & Noble Books
Pub. Date
[1995?]
Language
English
Description
Follows the madcap adventures of the Andrews family through three different stories. In Freaky Friday, Annabel and her mother discover that they have switched bodies. A Billion for Boris continues with Annabel and her boyfriend Boris, and Annabel's brother who begins predicting the future. In Summer Switch, Annabel's father and brother trade bodies.
111) Character, driven
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In his last year of high school, seventeen-year-old virgin Cliff Sparks has to figure out what to do with his life, including how to meet new girl Jillian and how to deal with old issues with his unemployed father.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the beloved and best-selling Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel about misperception, second chances, and the sometimes elusive power of human connection. Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses...
Author
Language
English
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Description
When former sheriff Patrick Drake is paroled after a twelve-year stint in prison for committing one of the biggest crimes in local history, he must contend with the current deputy sheriff--who happens to be his son--as well as a terrifying threat from his old life.
115) Giving thanks
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
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 becomes a habit and makes one feel good.
116) Dream dog
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
Harry cannot have the dog he desperately wants because of his father's sensitive nose, so he uses his X-35 Infra-Rocket Imagination Helmet to create Waffle, the dog of his dreams.
117) Just a special day
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When Mom and Little Sister go to town, Little Critter and his dad share a day of fun involving playing games, meeting new friends, and preparing a special surprise for their return home.
119) Paradise Bay
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack Santos' life is turned upside down after he learns the father he thought was dead is still alive, and he sets out to discover everything he can about his father's past and his own heritage.
120) Still waters
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"High-schooler Jason, who lives with a drunk, abusive father at home, hopes to earn enough money to escape with his younger sister, Janie, by being tough at school, but the stakes grow ever more dangerous and soon even his fists and ability to think on his feet are not enough to keep his head above water."--