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2) Hero dad
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A child demonstrates that while Dad differs from a traditional superhero, as an American soldier he is a superhero of a different kind.
3) Owl moon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl.
6) The barn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In an effort to fulfill their dying father's last request, nine-year-old Ben and his brother and sister construct a barn on their land in the Oregon Territory.
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Description
"After he's forced to sell the family farm he's labored on his whole life, 63-year-old Gerrit Laninga doesn't know what to do with himself. He sacrificed everything for the land--his time, his health, his family--with nothing to show for it but bitterness, regret, and two grown children who want nothing to do with him. Fifteen-year-old Rae Walters has growing doubts and fears about The Plan--the detailed blueprint for high school that will help her...
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Description
Tom and Kate Baker have made many sacrifices in their professional lives in order to raise their 12 children. When Tom is offered a job as a Division I college football coach, he moves the entire pack to a suburb in Chicago. This move shakes up the entire family, but when Kate's memoirs get published, she takes off on a book tour. The lack of parental guidance creates problems for all the Baker kids and chaos ensues.
Pub. Date
2019
Description
After Mary Poppins departed London, Jane and Michael Banks grew up into loving and responsible adults. When Michael becomes a single father of three children after the death of his wife, Mary Poppins revisits the Cherry Tree Lane home again to try to help Michael and his family cope and move beyond their grief. Time passes quickly for most normal mortals. Mary Poppins has never been normal. Although it's now the 1930s, she looks exactly the same....
10) Fathers
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Simple text and photographs present fathers and how they interact with their families"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Happily Inc volume 6
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Description
"There's no place like Happily Inc. for the holidays... Wynn Beauchene has a thriving business, a great kid and a mildly embarrassing crush on the guy next door--local cop Garrick McCabe. She's a strong, independent woman who can't help dreaming what-if about a man she barely knows. Until he needs her help ... Garrick's pregnant daughter will be home for Christmas, and his house needs a woman's touch. Garrick and his little girl were tight once and...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
F is for flight ... for fear ... for fugitive. A father believes his son was wrongly convicted for the murder of a troubled teenage girl seventeen years earlier in Floral Beach, California. Detective Kinsey Millhone finds everyone in the small town has something to hide-- and a killer will kill again to keep the past buried. -- Publisher info.
14) Elmet: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
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Description
"Cathy and Daniel live in the remote woods of Yorkshire with their gentle brute of a father, a former enforcer who now wants only to be left alone to raise his children. But when a powerful landowner shows up on their doorstep, a chain of violent events is set in motion"--
15) Smart People
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Lawrence Wetherhold is a recently widowed literature professor who is a numb and chilly intellectual. He rebuffs his students, ignores his own teenage children, James and Vanessa, and spurns cries for financial assistance from his ne'er-do-well but rather soulful adopted brother, Chuck. After an accident and Lawrence goes to the hospital, he is deprived of the right to drive. Janet is a physician and former student of Lawrence who remembers her disappointment...
Author
Series
Heaven trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
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Description
Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.
Author
Series
How to catch-- volume 13
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A group of children tries to capture the daddysaurus, a mystical creature capable of kindness, bravery, and fun.
19) Poseidon's arrow
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It is the greatest advance in American defense technology in decades - an attack submarine capable of incredible underwater speeds. There is only one problem: A key element of the prototype is missing and the man who developed it is dead. At the same time, ships have started vanishing mid-ocean, usually never to be found again, but when they are, sometimes bodies are found aboard . . . burned to a crisp. What is going on? It is up to NUMA director...