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1) Just because
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a child is too full of questions about the world to go to sleep, her patient father offers up increasingly creative responses to his child's nighttime wonderings.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by the alcoholic father who idealized the natural world without imparting any survival skills to his children, three siblings in 1970s New York embark on difficult adult lives before their father attempts a reconciliation.
Western New York, 1978. Terrance Thurber spends this year teaching his children, Jamie, Lewis, and Connor, about the natural world: they listen to the heartbeat of trees, track animal footprints, sleep under the star-filled...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a magical medieval world filled with dragons, shape-shifters, and witches, a twelve-year-old nonbinary hopeful knight battles for the heart of their kingdom. A thrilling middle-grade series opener that explores identity and gender amid sword fights and magic, and proves anyone can be a hero. When their ex-hero dad is summoned back to the royal capital of Helston to train a hopeless crown prince, Callie lunges at the opportunity to finally prove...
5) Hero dad
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A child demonstrates that while Dad differs from a traditional superhero, as an American soldier he is a superhero of a different kind.
6) Tad and Dad
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A growing tadpole loves his frog dad so much he never gives him a moment's peace"--
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"After he's forced to sell the family farm he's labored on his whole life, 63-year-old Gerrit Laninga doesn't know what to do with himself. He sacrificed everything for the land--his time, his health, his family--with nothing to show for it but bitterness, regret, and two grown children who want nothing to do with him. Fifteen-year-old Rae Walters has growing doubts and fears about The Plan--the detailed blueprint for high school that will help her...
8) Daddies do
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In rhyming text, animal children share all the things their fathers do for them.
10) Papa's home
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A child worries about what it will be like while his papa is away, until papa is home"--
11) Daddy hug
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
Animal fathers give hugs that come in all shapes and sizes, and each one is filled with love.
12) We bought a zoo
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"When his teenage son gets into trouble, Benjamin Mee ... gives up a lucrative newspaper job to move his family to the most unlikely of places: a zoo! With help from an eclectic staff, and with many misadventures along the way, Benjamin embarks on a fresh beginning to restore the dilapidated zoo to its former glory, while uniting his family"--Container.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mashiny Tvorenii͡a
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Russian
Description
"One night, the Gruffalo's child wanders into the woods to search for the Big Bad Mouse. Instead, it comes upon a small mouse in the woods... and decides to eat it! But a shadow of a very large, scary creature falls on the ground. Suddenly the Gruffalo's child is frightened. Could it be the Big Bad Mouse after all?" --
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In this tender reimagining of the classic lullaby "Hush, Little Baby" from Caldecott Honor winner David Ezra Stein, a papa bunny shares his love of the natural world with his little one." --From publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Mina is excited to start her mentorship at A Batch Made in Heaven, a bakery famous throughout Washington State for their unique cookies, because she would like to become a baker herself, and she wants to enter the cookie competition in Seattle to win money to help her father open a restaurant to replace the one he left behind in Delhi; but she is soon frustrated because the owner's annoying son, Flynn, will not even let her near the kitchen--clearly...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Mia is on a five-day tour of North Korea with her older brother, Simon, and their father, Mark, a food aid worker, but she is scared because her father keeps sneaking off at night, and terrified that her brother's sullen, rebellious behavior (which has absolutely nothing to do with the Koreans) is going to get them in trouble--and things get much worse when she is pulled into a deadly political game that seeks to expose North Korean...
20) Winter's bone
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails to find him, she and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions, and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth.
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