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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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ACA

Lashner, William

Summary: Middle schooler Elizabeth Webster has a new case for the Court of Uncommon Pleas: a fourth grader who says her sister's ghosts were stolen; the case leads her to the Ramsberger Institute of the Paranormal, run by Frederick Ramsberger and his grandmother (deceased), who are imprisoning and controlling ghosts, and who have a connection to Elizabeth's enemy, the fearsome demon Redwing.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LAS

Keating, 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." --

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KEA

Hickey, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC HIC

Ruths, Mitali Banerjee

Summary: At her mother's request Priya is planning a surprise anniversary party for her father, but she is finding it hard to keep it a secret from her inquisitive dad.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic, Inc. 2023

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE RUT

Larson, Kirby

Summary: Tess Medina is dealing with the loss of her beloved father, a new school, and the troubling fact that the thing she enjoys most in life, baking, seems to be making her increasingly ill--something she is trying to hide from everybody.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024

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Ekster, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Editions, an imprint of Capstone 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE EKS

Stohler, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STO

Faris, Stephanie

Summary: Gabby's father is a paranormal investigator with a podcast, but ten-year-old Gabby does not believe in ghosts, and is determined to prove there is no ghost haunting the Brookhaven Inn in Massachusetts where they are filming--except she could be wrong.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FAR

Faruqi, 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!

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2022

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE FAR

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE FAR

Lebeuf, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2021

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Manushkin, Fran

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.

Format: text

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 MAN

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE MAN

Stutson, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Sleeping Bear Press 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STU

Toalson, R. L. (Rachel L.)

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC TOA

Acevedo, 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...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ACE

Faris, Stephanie

Summary: Gabby's father has a podcast called Ghost Search, and this time they are investigating a haunted bookstore--ten-year-old Gabby does not believe in ghosts and always tries to debunk the hauntings, but this time she is not so sure.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2024

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FAR

Kibuishi, Amy Kim

Summary: Enter the rich and fantastical world of Rema in the first installment of this middle-grade graphic novel series with sweeping adventure and light romance! Tabby Simon is determined to learn what happened to her father, who was found dead after researching a tree that leaks a mysterious mist in her neighborhood. She is unexpectedly led to Rema, a distant world of magic and beauty that is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2022

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Maddox, 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...

Format: text

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 MAD

O'Connor, Jane

Summary: JoJo and Daddy bake a cake for a surprise recipient.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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2 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN OCO

Poe, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a capstone imprint 2019

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED POE

Bergel, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2000

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2 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BER

Bishop, Jenn

Summary: New to Cincinnati, where her father is now coach of the University basketball team, eighth-grader Aurora (called Rory) finds herself isolated by the heated team rivalries--especially when it turns out her new friend Abby's father has a mysterious feud with Rory's father that threatens her new friendship.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2023

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BIS

Bolling, Valerie

Summary: Told in rhyming text, a young African American girl learns to ride a bike, with the help of her father.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2022

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Callender, Kheryn

Summary: Born on Water Island in the Virgin Islands during a hurricane, which is considered bad luck, twelve-year-old Caroline falls in love with another girl--and together they set out in a hurricane to find Caroline's missing mother.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CAL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CAL

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