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Azuma, Kiyohiko

Summary: The curious and curiouser Yotsuba moves to a new town with her dad. In the process of moving in, Yotsuba encounters things like swingsets and broken door handles, which all bring about a never-ending torrent of questions and shrieks of amazement.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2009

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Wang, Holman

Summary: "Being a dad is eleven jobs in one! This unique picture book for very young readers celebrates the many jobs being a parent encompasses: A receptionist scheduling important meetings (for playdates), an architect designing buildings (or pillow forts), an inspector (of diapers!).... When Dad gets home from his day job at the office, he never knows which job will be waiting for him, but he knows...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WAN

Azuma, Kiyohiko

Summary: "YOTSUBA heeeeeere! Guess what, guess what!? Yotsuba is going to a flower store with Fuuka! Yotsuba's gonna give flowers to everybody in the whole, wide world, even the police lady with her whistle that goes-- PI! PI! PIPI! PI! PIPUUUUUUUU!!"--Publisher's web site

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 YOT

Unita, Yumi

Summary: "As Daikichi continues to juggle work with raising a teenager, Rin struggles with the relationship between her and Kouki, her childhood friend. The last ten years have brought about a variety of changes to their friendship-- some subtle, some not so. Kouki may always have been head over heels for Rin, but the choices he's made in the past seem to have put a wedge between them. And when a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2012

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BUN

Ferguson, Jenny

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Summary: "Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She'll be working in her family's ice-cream shack with her newly ex-boyfriend-whose kisses never made her feel desire, only discomfort-and her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago without a word. But when she gets a letter from her biological father--a man she hoped would...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FER

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FER

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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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

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

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE STO

Summary: The story of a master chef and his three adult daughters, all of whom are seeking love and happiness in different ways.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EAT

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

Córdova, 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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022

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

Copies Available at Kingsley

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

Copies Available at East Bay

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

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

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ACE

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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Marks, 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"--

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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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

Carter, Ally

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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2018

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION CAR

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CAR

Claflin, 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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLA

Marshall, 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...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MAR

Scarry, Richard

Summary: Bridget spends a day at work with her father, Sergeant Murphy, and learns what an important job being a police officer is.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Golden book 2004

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCA

Scott, Jordan

Summary: "A girl grows up visiting Snæfellsjökull, the glacier near her home, but when preteen life throws her off-center she must reconnect with her icy old friend"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Neal Porter Books / Holiday House 2024

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCO

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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SCO

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