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122) Home
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
325 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
"Oh, let's do it!" say Kitty and Katy and Mom when a thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle mysteriously arrives in the mail. "I have time on my hands," agrees Dad. Starting in winter with the edges, by autumn they're almost done, only to discover that one piece is missing. Mom is sure that it must have accidentally gone out with the trash, so the Kellys pile into the car to comb through the local dump ("shouldn't take long"). There they uncover forgotten letters,...
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
KILLER”: Jack Queen has been exonerated and freed from prison thanks to retired LAPD officer Cato Hightower. But when guilt gnaws at Jack, he admits: “I actually did it.” To which Hightower responds: “Yeah, no kidding.” You see, the ex-cop has a special job in mind for the ex-con…
THE GIRL DETECTIVE: Fifteen-year-old Matilda Finnerty has been handed a potential death sentence in the form of a leukemia diagnosis. But that’s not going...
126) Unquiet
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"He is a renowned Swedish filmmaker and has a plan for everything. She is his daughter, the youngest of nine children. Every summer, since she was a little girl, she visits him at his beloved stony house surrounded by woods, poppies, and the Baltic sea. Now that shes grown up and hes in his late eighties, he envisions a book about old age. He worries that hes losing his language, his memory, his mind. Growing old is hard work, he says. They will write...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Given the ultimate chance to prove herself when a Russian defector walks into her post, brilliant young CIA officer Amanda Cole teams up with a fearless--and legendary--spy to unravel an international conspiracy--one shockingly linked to her father, a spy during the Cold War.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
242 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Eighteen months before her beloved father died, Kathryn Schulz met Casey, the woman who would become her wife. Lost & Found weaves together their love story with the story of losing Kathryn's father in a brilliant exploration of the way families are lost and found and the way life dispenses wretchedness and suffering, beauty and grandeur all at once. Schulz writes with painful clarity about the vicissitudes of grieving her father, but she also writes...
129) Half a chance
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Lucy, with her mother and her photographer father, has just moved to a small rural community in New Hampshire, and with her new friend Nate, she plans to spend the summer taking photos for a contest, but pictures sometimes reveal more than people are willing to see.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
544 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In small towns between the North Carolina Piedmont and the coast the best scenery is often in the sky. On flat sweeps of red clay and scrub pine the days move monotonously, safely, but above, in the blink of an eye, dangerous clouds can boil out of all four corners of the sky...The flat slow land starts to shiver and anything can happen. In such a storm, on Annie Peregrine's seventh birthday, her father gave her the airplane and minutes later drove...
131) Burn
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he'd hired to help on the farm... Sarah Dewhurst and her father, outcasts in their little town of Frome, Washington, are forced to hire a dragon to work their farm, something only the poorest of the poor ever have to resort to. The dragon, Kazimir, has more to him than meets the eye, though. Sarah can't help but...
132) Waiting on love
Author
Series
Ladies of the lake volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Crisscrossing the Great Lakes onboard her father's freighter ship, the Mary Elise, Elise Wright has grown up cooking and caring for the crew. It is a life she loves. Unlike her estranged sister, Elise has turned down numerous opportunities for a "respectable life" with their wealthy relatives. And now, because of promises she made to her dying mother, she's bound to the ship and her deeply grieving father more than ever. Nick Clark is grateful to...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From New York Times best-selling author Jami Attenberg comes a sharp, funny, and emotionally powerful novel about a family reuniting at the deathbed of its patriarch. In reckoning with his secret past, can they rebuild and begin anew?"--
"If I know why they are the way they are, then maybe I can learn why I am the way I am," says Alex Tuchman of her parents. Now that her father is on his deathbed, Alex--a strong-headed lawyer, devoted mother, and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After Trixie and daddy leave the laundromat, something very important turns up missing. Featuring the complete story, a storybook read-along, and the original cast recording of the Kennedy Center's Knuffle Bunny: A cautionary musical.
135) Taken 3
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ex-covert operative Bryan Mills, whose long awaited reconciliation with his ex-wife is tragically cut short when she is brutally murdered, must use his 'particular set of skills' to track down the real killers, exact his unique brand of justice, and protect the only thing that matters to him now: his daughter.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Told from two viewpoints, STEM-oriented Sutton and imaginative, artistic Luis, ages nine and ten, must find some common ground when her father and his mother start dating seriously.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows fourteen-year-old Zoe and her recently exonerated father as they build their new relationship and work to open a restaurant together.
138) Hair love
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Zuri's hair lets her be her. It coils and kinks to perfectly match a princess tiara or a superhero cape. But an extra-special day calls for an extra-special style!
Comb in hand, Daddy steps in to help Zuri find the perfect fit.
With heartwarming text and radiant illustrations, Hair Love celebrates the curls that are uniquely yours, the bond between dads and daughters, and the joy that fills you up when you get to express yourself freely.
140) Clown in a cornfield
Author
Series
Clown in a Cornfield volume 1
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Quinn and her father move to a tiny town with a weird clown for a mascot, they're looking for a fresh start. But ever since the town's only factory shut down, Kettle Springs has been cracked in half.
Most of the town believes that the kids are to blame. After all, the juniors and seniors at Kettle Springs High are the ones who threw the party where Arthur Hill's daughter died. They're the ones who set the abandoned factory on fire and who spend...