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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Penny has never met anyone smarter than her. That's par for the course when you're a savant--one of less than one hundred in the world. But despite her photographic memory and super-powered intellect, there's one question Penny doesn't know the answer to: where did her father go when he left her and her mother years ago? On Penny's 21st birthday, she receives a card in the mail from her father, just as she has every year since he left. But this birthday...
3) Surfer Chick
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of a little chick and her dad who take to the beach where he teaches her how to surf.
Author
Publisher
Pharos Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Mirroring a true story, the trails and tribulations of Catrin Thomas promise the reader a ticket to a literary roller coaster. The tales of her crazy past adventures will fascinate, scintillate and sometimes shock, whilst vying with vivid descriptions of the physical, erotic passion she shares with her soul mate, who she finally meets after having the strength to end a long term, crippled relationship. These accounts of her experiences all add to...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A heartwarming father-son story set in glorious Tuscany about bohemian London artist Robert, who returns to Italy with his estranged son Jack to make a quick sale of the house they inherited from his late wife. Neither expects to find the once beautiful villa in such a state of disrepair. Renovations go badly, with father and son soon finding themselves at odds. Robert's comical lack of DIY experience leads him to seek help from some colorful locals....
6) Scrapper
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A vibrant and inventive father-daughter comedy follows Georgie, a resourceful twelve-year-old girl who secretly lives alone in her flat in a working-class suburb of London following the death of her mother. She makes money stealing bikes with her best friend Ali and keeps the social workers off her back by pretending to live with an uncle. Out of nowhere, her estranged father Jason arrives and forces her to confront reality. Uninterested in this sudden...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
Since the death of his pregnant wife in a Haitian earthquake 12 years ago, Victor Fielding has raised their daughter, Angela on his own. But when Angela and her friend Katherine, disappear in the woods, only to return three days later with no memory of what happened to them, it unleashes a chain of events that will force Victor to confront the nadir of evil and, in his terror and desperation, seek out the only person alive who has witnessed anything...
8) Evolution
Author
Series
Dark matter trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Charlesbridge Teen
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First US paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"Kai and Shay have gone their separate ways. As both teens continue to search for Kai's sister, Callie, Shay ends up at the Multiverse compound, a scientific cult in a remote area of Scotland. There Shay investigates the origins of the epidemic and a possible cure. And she discovers that her father, Dr. Alex Cross, has plans that jeopardize the lives of everyone in the community. Meanwhile, Kai helps his friend Freja evade capture--but he doesn't...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Gus Blackburn daydreams of being a hero wide receiver on his school's football team, but he is not naturally athletic or fast, so he spends most of his time on the bench--until his father points out that most dreams actually take hard work before they cancome true.
Author
Series
Coyote Sunrise volume 2
Pub. Date
2024
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Almost a year after settling down in Oregon, Coyote embarks on a cross-country road trip with her dad to scatter her mom's ashes, but the journey takes an unexpected turn when she realizes the secret to the chosen resting place lies in a lost book.
Author
Series
Summer beach volume 2
Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First Harper Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
When real estate developers discover the hidden enclave of SANS--Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest and Nineveh--the home of African American elites, Olivia Jones fights to preserve her new Black utopia, leading her to define the meaning of love, friendship, community and family.
12) Dazzling
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Treasure and her mother lost everything when Treasure's father died. Haggling for scraps in the market, Treasure meets a man who promises to change their fortunes, but his feet are hovering just a few inches above the ground. He's a spirit, and he promises to bring Treasure's beloved father back to life if she'll do one terrible thing for him first. Ozoemena has an itch in the middle of her back. It's an itch that speaks to her patrilineal destiny,...
Author
Series
Party diaries volume 3
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
At her mother's request Priya is planning a surprise anniversary party for her father, but she is finding it hard to keep it a secret from her inquisitive dad.
14) Angela's glacier
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
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"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Maddie is left reeling after the unexpected passing of her beloved father. No one has any idea why he betrayed them all so spectacularly, but that's exactly what his death feels like: a betrayal. With their world shattered, Maddie's grieving mother sends her to spend a few months with her grandparents, thinking a change of scenery will do her good. Susan and Frank, Maddie's grandparents, are heartbroken over the loss of their son,...
16) Gringa
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Large Marge Bickford, 'Butt too big, boobs too small…generation XL', navigates the halls of her high school and the chalked lines of its soccer field with the same sense of failure and dread. This is not a happy kid. Marge is most often alone but not necessarily lonely, just resigned. Life is passing her by and she doesn’t seem to mind…until the death of her nearly perfect Mom. Marge refuses to move to Arizona to live with her ultra-conservative...
17) Mercy road
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After committing an impulsive, vicious crime while searching for his missing daughter, a frantic father goes on the run from law enforcement and soon begins receiving chilling calls from an unknown entity claiming to know her whereabouts. As he faithfully follows the caller2s increasingly unhinged instructions, he is driven perilously close to the edge of sanity while discovering exactly how far he is willing to go to save his child.
18) Real steel
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who lost his chance at a title when 2000-pound, 8-foot-tall steel robots took over the ring. Now nothing but a small-time promoter, Charlie earns just enough money piecing together low-end bots from scrap metal to get from one underground boxing venue to the next. When Charlie hits rock bottom, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max to build and train a championship contender.
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