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1) Owl moon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Rosalind is banished by her uncle, who has usurped her father's throne, she flees to the forest of Arden where her exiled father holds court. There, dressed as a boy to avoid discovery, she encounters the man she loves now a fellow exile and resolves to remain in disguise to test his feelings for her. A gloriously sunny comedy, As You Like It is an exuberant combination of concealed identities and verbal jousting, reconciliations and multiple...
4) Hurricane!
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A girl and her father prepare their beach cottage for the coming hurricane, which topples their swing tree and washes away their stairs. Includes section of hurricane facts.
5) Schroder
Author
Language
English
Description
A lyrical and deeply affecting novel recounting the seven days a father spends on the road with his daughter after kidnapping her during a parental visit.
Attending a New England summer camp, young Eric Schroder-a first-generation East German immigrant-adopts the last name Kennedy to more easily fit in, a fateful white lie that will set him on an improbable and ultimately tragic course.
SCHRODER relates the story of Eric's urgent escape years later...
6) Eileen
Author
Language
English
Description
A lonely young woman working in a boy’s prison outside Boston in the early 60s is pulled into a very strange crime, in a mordant, harrowing story of obsession and suspense.
My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty-four years old then and had a job that paid fifty-seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposes,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Daley, torn as a child between her liberal, socially committed mother and charismatic, alcoholic father, embarks on her own separate life as an adult, but when her dad hits rock bottom, she is lured back home with a dream of getting him sober and restoring their relationship, risking the possibility of a future with Jonathan.
Author
Language
English
Description
"What if you could take a vacation to your past, without the filter of memory? What would you give to go back in time and relive your youth, in person, with the people who shared it? On the eve of her 40th birthday, Alice's life isn't terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn't exactly the one she expected. She's happy with her apartment, her romantic status, her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But something is missing. Her...
10) Two by two
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
At 32, Russell Green has it all: a stunning wife, a lovable six year-old daughter, a successful career as an advertising executive and an expansive home in Raleigh. He is living the dream, and his marriage to the bewitching Vivian is the center of that. But underneath the shiny surface of this perfect existence, fault lines are beginning to appear...and no one is more surprised than Russ when he finds every aspect of the life he took for granted turned...
12) The last ride
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Samuel Jones deserted his daughter Maggie years ago and went to live with the Indians. When he tries to restore his relationship with Maggie, he finds that his granddaughter Lily has been kidnapped by renegade Apaches who want to sell her to slavers in Mexico. Samuel, Maggie, and her younger daughter Dot set out together on a desparate rescue mission.
Author
Language
English
Description
When Hazel Nash was six years old, her father taught her: mysteries needed to be solved. Hazel's father is Jack Nash, the host of America's favorite conspiracy TV show, The House of Secrets. Now, years later, Hazel wakes up in the hospital and remembers nothing. She's told she's been in a car accident that killed her father and injured her brother. Then a man from the FBI shows up, asking questions about her dad - and about his connection to the...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred
One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide,
...16) Sacrifice
Author
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
After miraculously recovering from a gunshot wound to the head, a man discovers that an ancient Mayan ritual has given him immortality, provided he offers a virgin sacrifice every nineteen years. His time almost up, he takes his seventeen-year-old daughter to Guatemala and prepares to offer her as a sacrifice.
17) Pure colour
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A short epic novel about art, grief, and love by Sheila Heti, the author of Motherhood and How Should A Person Be"--
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Donna Milewski, an only child, is living a perfectly happy life with her grandmother, mother, and dad, who she charms with her accordian playing, until her parents adopt a precious, pitiful little girl from Poland who causes a rift between Donna and her father that takes many years to heal.
20) Daddy's girl
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the illustrated lyrics to four songs written by Garrison Keillor about the joys of being the father of a little girl, and includes recordings of the songs sung by the author on CD.
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