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1) Calico Joe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In this novel, the careers of a golden boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths. The baseball is thrilling, but it is what happens off the field that makes this story a classic.
Author
Language
English
Description
After embarrassing themselves at the social event of the year in high society Philadelphia on New Year's Eve of 1942, Maddie and Ellis Hyde are cut off financially by Ellis's father, a former army Colonel who is already embarrassed by his son's inability to serve in WWII due to his being colorblind. To Maddie's horror, Ellis decides that the only way to regain his father's favor is to succeed in a venture his father attempted and very publicly failed...
Author
Series
Jack Swyteck novels volume 8
Language
English
Description
When the U.S. Vice President dies unexpectedly during a hunting trip in the Everglades, the President selects his friend, former Florida governor Harry Swyteck, to fill the vacant position. Called to Washington to serve as his father's legal advisor, Jack Swyteck has mixed feelings about working so closely with the parent he's been at odds with in the past. Jack's duty, however, as a son and as an American, takes top priority. But the vipers are restless...
5) If
Author
Publisher
Creative Editions
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The famously inspirational poem written by Rudyard Kipling in 1895, which first appeared in a 1910 collection of short stories and poems, is here accompanied by illustrations"--
6) Whistling
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
©2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While on a camping trip with his father, a boy draws on the whistling practice they have shared and finally whistles up the sun.
Author
Language
English
Formats
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.
Daniel Allen has always been a good kid but, as a child of divorce, used to shuttling back and forth between parents, he is also something of a drifter. When a Democratic candidate for president is shot at a rally, Daniel is caught on video as the assassin. His father, a doctor, struggles to understand...
Author
Series
Stone Barrington novels volume 27
Language
English
Description
When Stone Barrington embarks on a trip to Bel-Air to check in on some business and personal concerns, he expects a relaxing break from the fast pace and mean streets of New York. But trouble never takes a vacation, and it has a way of finding Stone. A case that had seemingly been resolved has returned in full force -- with lethal results. And this deadly situation makes for strange bedfellows when Stone finds himself teamed with the least likely...
Author
Series
Christmas Tree Ranch volume 5
Language
English
Description
When he arrives in the small town of Branding Iron, Texas, journalist Cooper Chapman, hoping to start a new life with his young son, gets a second chance at love with the help of a little Christmas magic.
Journalist Cooper Chapman has moved next door to his newlywed sister in Branding Iron, Texas. The divorced single dad knows his troubled teenaged son needs the healing balm of big skies and family ties. But when Trevor falls in with wild friends...
12) The bear's song
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
©2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Papa Bear wakes up to find his son missing, and his search leads him to an opera house and a command performance.
Author
Series
Husbands for hire volume 3
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
©2012.
Language
English
Description
Ride out west to join the last sawmill bride as she attempts to select her mate. Naomi Higgins isn't about to settle for just anybody. Carpenter Michael Strode and his son, a chip off the old block, are ready to start a new life. Can they convince Naomi to be a part of their future when problems from the past still haunt Hope Falls? Will secrets sabotage the struggling town and any hope of romance?
14) Dad's first day
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Oliver and Dad have spent a fun summer together but when it comes time for the first day of school, Dad discovers that he is not ready and does everything he can to postpone the big day.
15) The snow spider
Author
Series
Magician trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Gifts from Gwyn's grandmother on his ninth birthday open up a whole new world to him, as he discovers he has magical powers that help him heal the breach with his father that has existed ever since his sister's mysterious disappearance four years before.
17) Fireside
Author
Series
Lakeshore chronicles volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Baseball hopeful Bo is about to get his shot at the majors, until AJ-- the son he's never met-- lands on his doorstep. He's willing to sacrifice everything for his vulnerable son, but Kimberly, his media handler, needs to learn how serious he is about putting love first.
18) The road
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity.
19) Homesick
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Benny's parents are getting divorced, his mom left and his father has become a hoarder, to make matters worse his hometown has been entered into a contest, and now the pressure is on to get the house cleaned up.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A grandmother describes to her grandson how his father was just like him when he was a child, never wanting to take a bath, fearing the dark, and swooping through the house in a cape and mask.
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