Phi, Bao
Summary: "As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Easy Collection, Call number: JE PHIEnger, Leif.
Summary: Through the voice of 11-year-old Reuben Land, an asthmatic boy obsessed with cowboys living in 1960s Minnesota, the story is told of the Land family's cross-country search for Reuben's outlaw older brother, who has been charged with murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ENGEREskens, Allen
Summary: Cub reporter Joe Talbert, Jr. investigates the murder of a man with the same name as him in a small town in Minnesota and discovers the deceased was a loathsome lowlife who may be his father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY ESKENSElston, Ashley
Summary: Owen Foster is pulled from his elite New Orleans boarding school when his father's assets are seized and, back in his small town, begins to piece together his father's past despite mounting danger.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION ELSTONHiaasen, Carl
Summary: Billy Dickens discovers that his mysterious father lives in Montana, so this summer Billy will fly across the country, hike a mountain, float a river, dodge a grizzly bear, shoot down a spy drone, and save his own father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J FICTION HIAASENJackson, Richard
Summary: "A boy remembers a special camping trip he shared with his father, who is now away at war."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Neal Porter Books / Holiday House 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy Collection, Call number: JE JACKSONCopies Available at Coldsprings
1 available in Juvenile Easy Collection, Call number: JE JACKSONJames, Matt
Summary: On a rainy morning, a father and son bond over a walk through a field full of freshly formed ponds teeming with tadpoles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Easy Collection, Call number: JE JAMESRex, Michael.
Summary: After receiving assurances that his father would save him from increasingly dangerous and scary pirates, a boy reassures his father in return.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Easy Collection, Call number: JE REXMayer, Mercer
Summary: "Little Critter wants a new toy Squisher truck! For two weeks, Little Critter does chores to pay for it--he lets the dog in, takes out the trash, and cleans his room. When he finally has enough money, the toy store is all sold out. To cheer up Little Critter, his dad takes him to his Uncle Zeb's Monster Truck Rally. From tricks on two wheels to riding in an actual monster truck, the rally is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: Jazz Dent, who has been shot and left to die in New York City, his girlfriend, Connie, who is in the clutches of Jazz's serial killer father, Billy, and his best friend, Howie, who is bleeding to death on the floor of Jazz's own home in tiny Lobo's Nod, must all rise above the horrors their lives have become and find a way to come together in pursuit of Billy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION LYGA bk. 3Riordan, Rick.
Summary: After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2008
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1 available in CD, Call number: AUDIO J RIORDAN 1Cervantes, Jennifer
Summary: To prevent the Mayan gods from battling each other and destroying the world, thirteen-year-old Zane must unravel an ancient prophecy, stop an evil god, and discover how the physical disability that makes him reliant on a cane also connects him to his father and his ancestry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2018
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Summary: What's on the other side of the forest? A young rabbit and his father are determined to find out in this modern picture book that feels like a classic, calling to mind the tender work of Beatrix Potter. Some say that wolves, ogres, and giant badgers live in the forest beside Arthur's house. That's why no one ever goes in there, to see what's on the other side. But one day, Arthur's dad has an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Kids / Greystone Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy Collection, Call number: JE ROBERTWalker, Lane
Summary: When Dré and his father go on a hunting trip, everything seems to go wrong: from a near plane crash to an avalanche. Then Dré and his dad find themselves hunted by a giant Kodiak brown bear and wondering if they'll live to tell the tale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "Jeremy is not excited about the prospect of spending the summer with his dad and uncle in a seaside cabin in Oregon. It's the first summer after his parents' divorce, and he hasn't exactly been seeking alone time with his dad. He doesn't have a choice though, so he goes. On his first day, he takes a walk on the beach and finds himself intrigued by a boy his age running by. Just like that, his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J FICTION TAYLORGibb, David
Summary: Determined to ride a bike with only two wheels through practice, patience and courage, a little boy discovers that his dream just might come true, in this delightful story that captures the magical moment when kids pedal off on their own.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Easy Collection, Call number: JE GIBBHo, Joanna
Summary: A young Asian boy notices that his eyes look different from his peers' after seeing his friend's drawing of them. After talking to his father, the boy realizes that his eyes rise to the skies and speak to the stars, shine like sunlit rays, and glimpse trails of light from those who came before--in fact, his eyes are like his father's, his agong's, and his little brother's, and they are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Collins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy Collection, Call number: JE HOHunter, Jana Novotny.
Summary: A little boy eagerly waits for his father to pick him up from school in his big tanker truck.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 2006
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Summary: Wilde has grown up knowing nothing of his family, and even less about his own identity. All he knows is that, as a young child, he was found living a feral existence in the Ramapo mountains of New Jersey. He became known simply as Wilde, the boy from the woods. Now Wilde has had a hit on the DNA website he has been researching. A 100% match. His father. They meet up, and Wilde soon realises...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY COBENBaldacci, David
Summary: When his father is charged with murder and refuses to do anything to prove his innocence, Will Robie returns as an outsider to his hometown of Cantrell, Mississippi--where is he is met with distrust--to conduct his own investigation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BALDACCIVerghese, A. (Abraham)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2009
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Summary: In this novel, the careers of a golden boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths. The baseball is thrilling, but it is what happens off the field that makes this story a classic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION GRISHAMLevrero, Mario
Summary: Nicolás asks his very sleepy father to tell story after story and hears of a man who sleeps in his umbrella, another in the sea, and a third in a monkey's cage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Collection, Call number: J FICTION LEVREROGreen, Sally.
Summary: In a modern-day England where two warring factions of witches live amongst humans, seventeen-year-old Nathan has come into his own unique magical Gift, but he is on the run with the Hunters close behind, and they will stop at nothing until they have captured Nathan and destroyed his father.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2015