Acampora, Paul
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Ellie Magari's mother left shortly after Ellie was born, and her father has raised her, but Ellie always figured that one day she would meet her mother and ask her some pertinent questions--but now her mother has died, and Ellie does not know exactly how to feel about that, but she is determined, with the help of her friends in the St. Francis of Assisi's Howling Wolves...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ACAKeating, Jess
Summary: "When Mary Shelley is kidnapped by a mad scientist, Nikki Tesla and the other members of the Genius Academy team are forced to agree to steal a priceless, lethal high-tech ring in order to free her; but Nikki also plans to use the heist to get closer to her long-lost father who claims he is not the criminal mastermind she believes him to be." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KEAHickey, Caroline
Summary: On the last day of fifth grade, super-smart eleven-year-old Ginny learns that her father, who is a military ER doctor, is being deployed to Afghanistan, devastating news because they are already moving to another post in Maryland and Ginny depends on her father to help her manage her obsessions, panic attacks and general meltdowns; one of her obsessions is geographical facts, and somehow Ginny...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HICStohler, Lauren
Summary: After a long, itchy, uncomfortable day in clothes, a slew of fuzzy friends and her understanding Dad convince Cody that not all pajamas are bad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STOEkster, Carol Gordon
Summary: Athena thinks that her father, who drives a truck, has the most amazing job in the world, but she is having trouble convincing her classmates--until she comes up with a plan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE EKSFaruqi, Saadia
Summary: After Yasmin and her father spend the day working on a large jigsaw puzzle, her father does not feel well the next morning. Doctor Yasmin is sure she can diagnose the problem, and prescribe a cure!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE FARLebeuf, Darren
Summary: "A young girl explores her city with her father, taking in all its sensory details. Her city speaks to her in so many ways: "sometimes it echoes," and "sometimes it trills." It "buzzes and tweets and flocks." It's both "busy" and "relaxed," and "smelly" and "sweet." In the end, we discover that the city doesn't just speak to this inquisitive young girl - it also listens ... Author Darren...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2021
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Summary: When Katie's father looses his special rainbow ring while playing with the kids in the backyard, Katie and Pedro work to follow the clues to find the missing ring.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MANStutson, Caroline
Summary: Illustrations and rhyming text follow a young girl and her father as they share a busy day at the park before returning to their fourth-floor apartment.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2018
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Summary: Twelve-year-old budding writer, Victoria spends a summer with her estranged father and his new family which does not turn out the way she imagined.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TOABergel, Colin
Summary: A young girl learns how the birthday card she makes for her father will get to him as he works on a freighter carrying coal on Lake Michigan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2000
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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BERBolling, Valerie
Summary: Told in rhyming text, a young African American girl learns to ride a bike, with the help of her father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2022
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Summary: Six years ago Maddie lived in Washington D.C. with her father, a Secret Service agent assigned to the President's family, and her best friend was Logan, the President's son; but after her father was wounded in an attempted kidnapping the two of them moved to a remote cabin in Alaska and Logan never replied to her letters-- but now he has suddenly turned up on her doorstep, and, while she has no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION CARClaflin, Stacy
Summary: "He gave up his daughter years ago, but now he'll risk his life to save hers. Alex Mercer is no stranger to kidnappings. The emotional scars still run deep from his sister's disappearance years earlier. His daughter Ariana remains safe long after her adoption, and he cherishes the few times a year he gets to see her. The joy is palpable when he takes her on their first one-on-one outing. At...
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Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLACórdova, Zoraida
Summary: Eleven-and-a-half-year-old Valentina Salazar grew up as a monster protector until her father's loss, but when a video of a mythical egg appears, Valentina convinces her older brother and sister to help her find and save it--all while avoiding the monster hunters who want to destroy it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CORMarks, Janae
Summary: "Avid baker Zoe Washington receives a letter on her twelfth birthday from her biological father, who is in prison for a terrible crime"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC MARMarshall, Kate Alice
Summary: "After: Jess is alone. Her cabin has burned to the ground. She knows if she doesn't act fast, the cold will kill her before she has time to worry about food. But she is still alive-for now. Before: Jess hadn't seen her survivalist, off-the-grid dad in over a decade. But after a car crash killed her mother and left her injured, she was forced to move to his cabin in the remote Canadian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: "A riveting story of courage and strength in the face of Nazi terror ... about Hanna, a young Jewish girl, age 14, from a small Ukrainian village and how she and her family survived the Holocaust and eventually emigrated to America."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mandel Vilar Press 2018
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Summary: Bridget spends a day at work with her father, Sergeant Murphy, and learns what an important job being a police officer is.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Golden book 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCAWesterfeld, Scott
Summary: In a world that is rapidly descending into chaos, Frey and Rafi are twin sisters, but few people know of Frey's existence, because she has been raised to be her sister's body double and lethal bodyguard, while Rafi has been raised to further the family's political power--but when their father sends Frey in her sister's place as collateral in a tricky deal, Col, the son of a rival leader, gets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018
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2 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC WESAcevedo, Elizabeth
Summary: "CAMINO RIOS lives for the summers, when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this year, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people. ... In New York City, YAHAIRA RIOS is called to the principal's office, where her mother is waiting to tell her that her father, her hero, has died in a plane crash. Separated by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ACEMaddox, Jake
Summary: Eighth-grader Somali American Nimo Mohamed is the youngest runner on the varsity cross-country team, but she is determined to keep up with the older girls, so she has set herself a grueling training schedule; too grueling because her body is exhausted, her grades at school are slipping, and her father, who is still very much in her life despite the divorce, is starting the pressure her to quit...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MADO'Connor, Jane
Summary: JoJo and Daddy bake a cake for a surprise recipient.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN OCOPoe, Mayumi Shimose
Summary: On December 7, 1941, thirteen-year old Alice's life changes completely as she experiences an act of war, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and her father's imprisonment in a Japanese internment camp, leaving Alice and the rest of her family struggling to adjust to life without him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a capstone imprint 2019