Gill, John Freeman
Summary: In 1974, with both his family and his city fracturing, Griffin Watts is recruited into his estranged father's illicit and dangerous architectural salvage business. Small and nimble, Griffin is charged with stealing exuberantly expressive architectural sculptures, gargoyles, right off the faces of unsung tenements and iconic skyscrapers. As his father explains it, these gargoyles, carved and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2017
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Summary: Told in assonant free verse, Levi was once a premature baby who suffered from respiratory problems; he recovered, and now in seventh grade, he struggles to demonstrate to his divorced mother and overprotective brother that he is okay--so when his father suggests he take up boxing he falls in love with the sport, but he still must find a way to convince his family to set him free to follow his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2018
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Summary: Fourteen-year-old Dax Ramirez is living with his dad in a homeless shelter, and Dax is spending his days hustling less skilled skateboarders at the local skatepark--until an accident leads him to the first friends he has had in years, and an offer that will let him put his artistic skills to good use.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2014
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Summary: "A troubled kid finds his bearings in a new school after a baseball coach offers him a spot on the team"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: When wide receiver Ethan drops a touchdown pass and his team loses the game, he starts to doubt his own abilities, but as the next game approaches he realizes that he has to do what his father and coaches are telling him to do--stop obsessing about failure and get back to playing confident football.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2018
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Summary: Rory lives with his father on an island and one day, when his father needs some quiet time, Rory decides to go on an adventure by himself for the first time, unaware that his father's following behind to help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2015
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Summary: Documentary filmmaker Tommy is divorced and estranged from his son. But when his son is charged with murder while serving in Iraq, Tommy must confront his son and a tragic memory from his own past.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2010
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Summary: "An impoverished fifteen-year-old linebacker grapples with ideas about strength and masculinity after the dope-dealing father he idolized goes missing"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: For as long as he can remember, Malcolm has never felt like he was good enough. Not for his parents, who have always seemed at odds with each other, with Malcolm caught in between. And especially not for his dad, whose competitive drive and love for sports Malcolm has never shared. That is, until Malcolm discovers miniature golf, the one sport he actually enjoys. Maybe it's the way in which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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Summary: "A boy deals with the recent loss of his mother and his odyssey to find a date for the end-of-year school dance"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014