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1) Tractor day
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Simple rhyming text describes a child's day spent riding on the tractor with Daddy at their small farm.
Author
Series
Raines of Wind Canyon volume 8
Language
English
Description
When Claire Chastain seeks him out to tell him that the son he never knew he had has been kidnapped, former Navy SEAL Ben Slocum works with Claire to locate and rescue his son and finds himself falling in love with her.
Author
Series
Heaven trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Bobby's carefree teenage life changes forever when he becomes a father and must care for his adored baby daughter.
6) Tad and Dad
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A growing tadpole loves his frog dad so much he never gives him a moment's peace"-- Provided by publisher.
7) Rex
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A terrifying Tyrannosaurus rex spends his days raging through the jungle and scaring all the other dinosaurs until one night a tiny dinosaur hatches from an abandoned egg and decides that the big dinosaur is his father.
Author
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Papa Bear takes his cubs on a trip with him in order to show them how to fish, but when the little ones forgo the expensive equipment and want to fish with simple tools, it is Papa Bear who winds up learning a lesson.
10) A secret kept
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
It's been thirty years since Antoine's and Mélanie's mother died. But when a visit to the sea at Noirmoutier Island triggers painful memories of their haunting childhood--and Mélanie lies in the hospital recovering from a near-fatal accident--Antoine must confront his past and also his troubled relationships with his own children.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial, 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.
14) Tag dad
Author
Publisher
Whole Phonics
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Whole Phonics Early literacy, decodable reader. Target sound: short i Summary: Liz, Max, Ann and Dad play tag in the water. A fin appears, which worries everyone until the problem is solved.
15) Yum, yum, nuts
Author
Publisher
Whole Phonics
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Whole Phonics Early literacy, decodable reader. Target sound: short u Summary: A cub robs the kids' nuts. The kids and Dad make a plan to stop the cub.
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sharing a last game at the end of a lovely day filled with laughter and fun, little Bunny and Big Daddy Rabbit are joined by their woodland friends until little Bunny tires of all the hullabaloo, prompting a special lullaby by Big Daddy Rabbit.
17) Bad move \h
Author
Series
Zach Walker novels volume 1
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
18) On dad's lap
Author
Publisher
Whole Phonics
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Whole Phonics Early literacy, decodable reader. Target sound: short a Summary: All the characters are excited to sit on Dad's lap to listen to him read, until the chair breaks from their weight. Read to find out how the characters make the best of the situation.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"A father and son spend the day together detailing all of the things they could have ... if they didn't have each other. In the end, the both decided that candy for dinner ever night or a personal butler is no substitute for a father or a son"--
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