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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
It's the fall of 1979 in New York City when twenty-three-year-old Anton Winter, back from the Peace Corps and on the mend from a nasty bout of malaria, returns to his childhood home in the Dakota. Anton's father, the famous late-night host Buddy Winter, is there to greet him, himself recovering from a breakdown. Before long, Anton is swept up in an effort to reignite Buddy's stalled career, a mission that takes him from the gritty streets of New York,...
63) Dragonwings
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1975
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.
64) Wish
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"A father wishes his 9-year-old son would be well enough to play catch. The son wishes to see his father play in a major league baseball game. They all pray for a successful bone marrow transplant before cancer ends the boy's life, but first, they need to find a donor"--
65) Sunwing
Author
Series
Silverwing saga volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Continues the adventures of Shade, a young bat, as he searches for his father and struggles to prevent the evil jungle bat Goth from wiping out the sun.
66) Stormchaser
Author
Series
Edge chronicles. Original series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In his continuing adventures, Twig, now sixteen years old, joins the crew of his father's sky pirate ship and embarks on a dangerous mission to collect the powerful stromphrax, a substance that purifies water and also prevents the city of Sanctaphrax from floating away.
Author
Language
English
Description
Luke Millward is a man who does not know he is lost. His girlfriend loves him; his career is going well; and every night he falls asleep knowing that his life is good and meaningful. Only when the past reveals its twisted smile in a phone call and the disconnected voice asks him to come find his father in post-Katrina New Orleans is Luke compelled to find out what kind of man he truly is. Recovering Charles is for every family who's had its share...
68) Lost boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a near-fatal car accident, twelve-year-old Ryder's mother needs an operation they cannot afford and while a new friend tries to raise funds, Ryder travels with a grouchy, disabled neighbor, from Yankee Stadium to Turner Field seeking the major league baseball player who might be Ryder's father.
69) Game changers
Author
Series
Game changers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When the coach's son, Shawn O'Brien, is chosen to play quarterback, eleven-year-old Ben McBain is not surprised--but when he tries to be a good teammate and help the inconsistent Shawn, he is startled to learn that his new friend does not really want theposition.
70) Road Trip
Author
Series
Road trip volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A summer adventure you'll never forget, from a beloved Newbery Honor winning author!
Dad and Ben haven't been getting along lately, and Dad hopes a road trip to rescue a border collie will help them reconnect. But Ben is on to Dad's scheme, and he's got ideas of his own. Like inviting his buddy, Theo, who's sure to get into fun (and trouble) along the way. And if Dad wants a family road trip, then the family dog, Atticus, should get to come,...
Dad and Ben haven't been getting along lately, and Dad hopes a road trip to rescue a border collie will help them reconnect. But Ben is on to Dad's scheme, and he's got ideas of his own. Like inviting his buddy, Theo, who's sure to get into fun (and trouble) along the way. And if Dad wants a family road trip, then the family dog, Atticus, should get to come,...
71) The fixer
Author
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder delivers his next breakneck stand-alone thriller, following 2014's bestseller Suspicion. When Rick Hoffman loses his job and apartment, his only option is to move back into--and renovate--the home of his miserable youth, now empty and in decay since his father's stroke. But when he starts to pull it apart, he makes an electrifying discovery that will put his life in peril--and change everything he...
72) Mustang Flats
Author
Publisher
Lodestar Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When his father returns from the war in 1865, fourteen-year-old Alby finds his beloved Pa a changed man and can only hope that they will be friends again.
73) Too many secrets
Author
Series
Chad Weldon books volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Chad and his friend Jeannie try to discover who is breaking into their neighbor's house, while Chad also deals with his suspicions about why is father has been spending so much time away from home.
74) Girl, stolen
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When an impulsive carjacking turns into a kidnapping, Griffin, a high school dropout, finds himself more in sympathy with his wealthy, blind victim, sixteen-year-old Cheyenne, than with his greedy father.
75) Blazed
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When his manic-depressive mother is institutionalized after trying to kill herself, fourteen-year-old Jaime is sent to San Franciso to live with his estranged father, whom Jaime blames for his mother's problems.
76) The water seeker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the hard life, filled with losses, adversity, and adventure, of Amos, son of a trapper and dowser, from 1833 when his mother dies giving birth to him until 1859, when he himself has grown up and has a son of his own.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
A teenage boy accompanies his father, who has recently escaped from prison, on a trip that turns out to be an often painful time of discovery for them both.
78) Half bad
Author
Series
Half bad trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In modern-day England, where witches live alongside humans, Nathan, son of a White witch and the most powerful Black witch, must escape captivity before his seventeenth birthday and receive the gifts that will determine his future.
79) Gilead
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1956, toward the end of his life, Reverend John Ames begins a letter to his young son, sharing the story of his life and explaining how his faith influenced his choices and actions.
80) Eruption
Author
Series
Storm runners volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Chase, heading south of the border with Nicole Rossi, faces a threat to his survival while searching for the Rossi Brothers' Circus after an earthquake in Mexico.
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