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1) Frequency
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious channel to the past is opened allowing John Sullivan to communicate with his deceased father, a string of unsolved murders occur as a result; now father and son must work together to stop the crime that could hurt both of them.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A new novel by the author of Everything Is Illuminated introduces Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old son of a man killed in the World Trade Center bombing who searches the city for a lock that fits a black key his father left behind. Jonathan Safran Foer emerged as one of the most original writers of his generation with his best-selling debut novel, Everything Is Illuminated. Now, with humor, tenderness, and awe, he confronts the traumas of our recent...
3) The road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Traces the journey of a father and his son as they walk alone after a great fire has consumed the nation and left everything in ashes.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Artemis Fowl creates an extraordinarily powerful computer with stolen fairy technology, but his business deal hopes go sour when a Chicago businessman steals his invention and mortally wounds Artemis's loyal bodyguard.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
A down-and-out silver miner raising a son, self-made oilman Daniel Plainview, whose voracious appetite for oil turns him into a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. Getting the oil from the ground is an intensely physical process that later broadens into Plainview's equally indomitable urge to control land and power. Along the way, Plainview deals with a mighty derrick fire, a visit from a long-lost brother, and the ongoing involvement...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When their home next to a brook is destroyed by beavers, a large family of golden mice is aided by Poppy the deer mouse and her grumpy porcupine friend, who in the process forges a relationship with the son he had abandoned.
10) Ordinary heroes
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Retired newspaperman Stewart Dubinsky discovers a packet of his father's World War II letters and papers that reveal a secret life his family never knew of, including an fiance and an involvement with a former war spy.
11) Just like dad
Author
Publisher
Golden Books Pub. Co
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Little Critter discusses all of the ways he wants to be like his father when he grows up.
12) The given day
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the bloody police riots of the early twentieth century, a Boston police officer from a wealthy family, Danny Coughlin, joins a union movement to track down violent radicals, but his values are challenged when he learns that Luther Laurence, the African-American houseman who works for the Coughlin family, is connected with the NAACP.
13) Gilead
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
15) Dead or alive
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack Ryan, Jr., his two cousins, and recruits of the counter-terrorist organization known as Campus track Emir, a terrorist who has planned and executed attacks on the West.
17) Tron: legacy
Series
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
With the help of the female warrior Quorra, Flynn's son embarks on a personal journey in a cyber universe to save his father, and together they wage a battle of good versus evil.
18) Into the forest
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After his father seems to disappear, a boy takes a cake to his ill grandmother, traveling through the forest in a journey reminiscent of the story of Little Red Riding Hood.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A boy searches for his fugitive brother in 1960s Minnesota in this New York Times bestseller-"a stunning debut novel [of] faith, miracles, and family" (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
An eleven-year-old asthmatic boy, Reuben Land has reason to believe in miracles. But he will soon learn that life, even when touched by the divine, is never easy. Along with his father and poetically inclined sister, Reuben finds himself on a cross-country search...
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