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2) Girl, stolen
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this new novel from the author of Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen again demonstrates her talent for creating spellbinding period pieces. At the Water's Edge is a gripping and poignant love story about a privileged young woman's personal awakening as she experiences the devastations of World War II in a Scottish Highlands village"--Web page.
Author
Series
Sisterhood volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
With lively prose, unforgettable characters, and a touch of mischievous wit, Fern Michaels creates vivid reading experiences in all of her acclaimed USA Today and New York Times bestselling novels. Now, she inspires and entertains with a touching tale of the transforming power of love -- and a woman whose broken heart finds more room for the simple pleasures of family and home, and for discovering true love in the last place she expected. Darby Lane...
Author
Language
English
Description
Fathers and Sons, by Ivan Turgenev, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
7) Oh, Daddy!
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A young hippopotamus shows his father the right way to do things, such as getting dressed, watering the flowers, and especially giving big hugs.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"For years, guitarist Quinn Porter has been on the road chasing gigs, largely absent to his twice-ex-wife Belle and their odd, Guinness records-obsessed son. When the boy dies suddenly, Quinn volunteers to complete the requirements for the Boy Scout badge his son was earning. For seven Saturdays, he does yard work for Ona Vitkus, the wily 104-year-old Lithuanian immigrant the boy had visited weekly. Despite himself, Quinn picks up where the boy...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When fourteen-year-old baseball player Hutch feels threatened by the arrival of a new teammate named Darryl, he tries to work through his insecurities about both Darryl and his remote and silent father, who was once a great ballplayer too.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Brothers Karamazov: Illustrated" is a monumental work by Fyodor Dostoyevsky that delves into the complexities of family, faith, and morality. Set in 19th-century Russia, the novel follows the lives of the Karamazov brothers: Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha, as well as their father Fyodor Pavlovich.
As the brothers grapple with their relationships with each other and their father, they become embroiled in a web of jealousy, rivalry, and moral dilemmas....
12) The guilty
Author
Series
Will Robie novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Will Robie is the government's most professional, disciplined, and lethal assassin. But his skills have left him. On a critical assignment, he fails to pull the trigger. Now to recover what he has lost, Robie must confront what he has tried to forget for over twenty years: his own past. Will Robie escaped his small Gulf Coast hometown of Cantrell, Mississippi, after high school and never looked back. Not until his father, Dan Robie, has been...
13) My town
Author
Publisher
Treasure Bay
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A young boy and his father have a good time making a map as they explore their neighborhood.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
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.
18) Sleepy boy
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Unable to fall asleep, a little boy lying next to his father experiences the various sensations of his body and remembers a lion cub he saw that day at the zoo.
20) I love my dad
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young zebra named Ollie spends time with his dad.