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Pub. Date
2023.
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"A riveting novel about Cape Cod, complicated families, and long-buried secret ... Ken and Abby Gardner lost their mother when they were small and they have been haunted by her absence ever since. Their father, Adam, a brilliant oceanographer, raised them mostly on his own in his remote home on Cape Cod, where the attachment between Ken and Abby deepened into something complicated--and as adults their relationship is strained. Now, years later, the...
4) Mighty dads
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Told in simple rhyming text, hard-working construction vehicle fathers guide and encourage their children.
6) Hero dad
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Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
2010
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A child demonstrates that while Dad differs from a traditional superhero, as an American soldier he is a superhero of a different kind.
9) Daddy dreams
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Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
In this book with simple text, animal fathers, including a lion, a horse, and others, dream with their children close by.
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Publisher
Labyrinth Road
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Trapped in a rigid hierarchy where girls learn magic and boys train as knights, twelve-year-old nonbinary Callie, who dreams of becoming a knight, and their new friends find themselves embedded in an ancient war, but in order to defeat the threats outside the kingdom they must first defeat the bigotry within.
11) Sidewalk flowers
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Pub. Date
2015.
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Overview: In this wordless picture book, a little girl collects wildflowers while her distracted father pays her little attention. Each flower becomes a gift, and whether the gift is noticed or ignored, both giver and recipient are transformed by their encounter. "Written" by award-winning poet JonArno Lawson and brought to life by illustrator Sydney Smith, Sidewalk Flowers is an ode to the importance of small things, small people, and small gestures....
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Publisher
Maria Alarcon
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
In this reimagining of Greek mythology, the Titan Kronos banishes his children to Earth rather than swallowing them, and they are raised as orphans with scrambled memories. However, as soon as they turn sixteen, they are made aware of who they are and the prophecy they are made for, being sent off on a mythical and dangerous journey to overthrow their father and save the world.
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Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
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Twelve-year-old Mia is on a five-day tour of North Korea with her older brother, Simon, and their father, Mark, an food aide worker, but she is scared because her father keeps sneaking off at night, and terrified that her brother's sullen, rebellious behavior (which has absolutely nothing to do with the Koreans) is going to get them in trouble--and things get much worse when she is pulled into a deadly political game that seeks to expose North Korean...
15) Pie in the sky
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Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2004
Description
A father and child watch the cherry tree in their back yard, waiting until there are ripe cherries to bake in a pie. Includes a recipe for cherry pie.
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