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Author
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When her father, an ex-soldier suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD, is arrested for murder, Emily's efforts to exonerate him take her into the woods to play the Game, an extreme version of childhood games.
43) Inhuman
Author
Series
Fetch volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Beyond the wall lies the Feral Zone, breached only by the "fetches" who are paid to bring back items that were left behind when the wall went up--but when Delaney's father crosses into the Zone, she is forced to follow him and bring him back.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Marthanne's whole community is excited about the moon landing, and Marthanne is especially proud because her father helped create the fabric for the astronauts' spacesuits.
Author
Series
Tales of Rowan Hood volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In her quest to connect with Robin Hood, the father she has never met, thirteen-year-old Rosemary disguises herself as a boy, befriends a half-wolf, half-dog, a runaway princess, and an overgrown boy whose singing is hypnotic, and makes peace with her elfin heritage.
47) Dandy
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Although Sweetie has named and is caring for the sole dandelion on his perfect lawn, Daddy, with his friends' urging, does all he can to get rid of the weed before it spreads.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sadie and her father have been planning a trip to the zoo for a long time but something always gets in the way, so when they finally start out and her father sees some raindrops, Sadie insists there is no rain on her side of the car.
50) My dad is a tree
Author
Publisher
Rocky Pond Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A little girl convinces her dad to be a tree all day long, no matter what, even in the rain, in this imaginative picture book that encourages playing pretend and pays tribute to parents"--
51) Tenmile
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A thirteen-year-old girl living in an 1880 Colorado gold-mining town witnesses the hardships of her community as she assists her father, the town doctor.
53) My day with Dad
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A father and daughter spend a day together doing fun activities.
54) Finding Papa
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Young Mai and her mother embark on a long, perilous journey from Vietnam to America to find Papa, who left ahead of them to start a better life for their family.
55) Tokyo heist
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After a high-profile art heist of three van Gogh drawings in her home town of Seattle, sixteen-year-old Violet Rossi finds herself in Japan with her artist father, searching for the related van Gogh painting.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When her father is cursed by a rival witch, twelve-year-old Clementine Morcerous assumes his duties as Dark Lord of the realm, but soon questions her father's code of good and evil.
58) Pet dad
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Denied a pet, Plum decides her father will do and sets out to train him to sit, fetch, and more but he only responds by barking "No!" until she finds the right reward.
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