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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Philip Noble has a big problem. His dad has appeared to him as a member of the Dead Fathers Club, a club for "ghost dads" whose murders are unavenged. His father's road accident, it turns out, was no accident at all. Uncle Alan is responsible for his dad's death, and if Philip doesn't succeed in killing his uncle before his dad's birthday, just ten weeks away, his dad's spirit will never rest. So begins Philip's quest to avenge his...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Set in the ethnic neighborhoods of Seattle during World War II and Japanese American internment camps of the era, this debut novel tells the heartwarming story of widower Henry Lee, his father, and his first love Keiko Okabe.
24) Census
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Learning that he does not have long to live and will need to figure out how to provide for his developmentally disabled adult son, a widower signs up as a census taker for a mysterious government bureau and leaves town with his son on a cross-country journey.
25) The king of lies
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Jackson Workman Pickens-known to most as Work-mindlessly holds together his life: a failing law practice left to him when his father, Ezra, mysteriously disappeared, a distant wife, and a fragile sister, Jean, damaged by the shared past they've endured. And then Ezra's body is discovered. Set to inherit his father's fortune, Work becomes a prime suspect. But so does Jean. Fearing the worst, Work launches his own investigation, crossing paths with...
26) The good father
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his 20-year old son.
27) Armadale
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Allan Armadale makes a startling deathbed confession to be shared with his young son once he reaches adulthood-he murdered another man named Allan Armadale. It's a dark secret that inevitably looms over the child of the perpetrator and his victim.
Before dying, Allan Armadale reveals that he previously killed a man also named Allan Armadale. It's a revelation meant for his young son who discovers the information as an adult.
At this point, he's...
Author
Publisher
Dial PressTrade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
Marine pilot Bull Meecham's stern and unyielding personality challenges his southern-bred gentle wife and his top athlete son to stand up and fight back against the hard knocks of life.
Author
Series
Riftwar. Chaoswar saga volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Midkemia's most powerful sorcerer Pug faces a major magical cataclysm that forces him to question everything he's ever held as true and dear ... including the loyalty of his beloved son Magnus.
32) The English son
Author
Series
Amish millionaire volume 1
Publisher
Shiloh Run Press, an imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
New York Times Best Selling author Wanda E. Brunstetter pens a compelling new 6-part serial novel along with her daughter-in-law, Jean. When Joel Byler, prodigal son, returns to his Amish father to ask for money-again-he receives a chilly reception. When will the worldly young man learn he most pay for his own mistakes-and at what cost?
33) The dream bearer
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins/Amistad
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
During a summer in Harlem, David relies on his mother and a close friend and on an old man he meets in the park to help him come to terms with his father's outbursts and unstable behavior.
35) Crackback
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Description
Miles barely recalls when football was fun after being sidelined by a new coach, constantly criticized by his father, and pressured by his best friend to take performance-enhancing drugs.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
Decades after its original publication, James Agee's last novel seems, more than ever, an American classic. For in his lyrical, sorrowful account of a man's death and its impact on his family, Agee painstakingly created a small world of domestic happiness and then showed how quickly and casually it could be destroyed. On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying....
37) Wish
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
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"--
39) Strong like you
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An impoverished fifteen-year-old linebacker grapples with ideas about strength and masculinity after the dope-dealing father he idolized goes missing"--
40) I will find you
Author
Language
English
Description
"An innocent father serving life for the murder of his own son receives evidence that his child may still be alive, and must break out of prison to find out the truth"--
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