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1) Squirm
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Language
English
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"This summer, Billy will fly across the country, hike a mountain, float a river, dodge a grizzly bear, shoot down a spy drone, save a neighbor's cat, save an endangered panther, and then try to save his own father. Carl Hiaasen tells a wickedly funny, slightly twisted tale about families, figuring out what's really important, and knowing when (and when not) to let things go."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Dad counsels Sam not to sweat the small stuff, and later Sam gives that counsel right back to his panicky dad. This is a story about a secret handshake, life's daily challenges, the wisdom of kids, and love triumphing over frustration."--
3) Solo
Author
Publisher
Blink
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Blade endeavors to resolve painful issues from his past and navigate the challenges of his former rockstar father's addictions, scathing tabloid rumors, and a protected secret that threatens his own identity.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s letters and life, this book imagines the author as a child with dreams of becoming a writer. As he and his father visit one of the many lighthouses along the Scottish coast that were built by their family, young Louis begins composing a story in his head—one with storms, shipwrecks, and pirates—that will one day be published as Treasure Island." --publisher's website
6) Enemy pie
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Hoping that the enemy pie which his father makes will help him get rid of his enemy, a little boy finds that instead it helps him make a new friend.
8) Beginning
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Youg Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
From a seed to a plant, an egg to a chick, or a caterpillar to a butterfly, a child and father share the cycles in nature and come to see that as each journey ends a new adventure begins.
9) A beach tail
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Language
English
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Description
When his father tells him not to leave the lion he is drawing on the beach, a little boy starts making a very, very long tail--and a trail to follow back.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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When Sunny's father enters a video game he finds himself as the evil King Viking, but he is not very good at playing, so King Viking finds himself falling down and getting lost, and wondering if he will ever escape from the game.
11) Me and my dad!
Author
Publisher
Tiger Tales
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Rhyming text describes a day of fun and adventure that a bear shares with his father.
13) The bear's song
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2013, ©2013
Language
English
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Description
Papa Bear wakes up to find his son missing, and his search leads him to an opera house and a command performance.
14) A different pond
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Series
Language
English
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"As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam"--
17) Papa saurus
Author
Series
Babysaurus volume 2
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Babysaurus loves to play hide-and-seek in the jungle with his Papasaurus, but one day Papasaurus hides and Baby cannot find him--so he asks the other dinosaurs--Stego, Anky, Velo, and others--for help finding his father.
Author
Series
Sadiq volume 1
Language
English
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Sadiq's father is going on a business trip, but before he goes he tells Sadiq a story of the Desert Star, which fits in perfectly with Sadiq's third grade class field trip to the planetarium, and inspires Sadiq to build a simple telescope to study the stars when his father returns.
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