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1) Pegasus
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A multigenerational narrative inspired by the author's own family history traces the efforts of an aristocratic German family to find refuge for themselves and their magnificent horses in post-World War II America.
Author
Series
Fox and O'Hare volume 6
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
The missing man is a Silicon Valley big shot known to all as the Big Kahuna. Nick and Kate's only lead takes them to Hawaii, where the missing man's free-spirit, drop-out son spends his days looking for the perfect wave and his nights puffing weed. To get close to the Kahuna's son, Kate and Nick go undercover as a married couple in the big-wave surfer community on Maui's North Shore. Living a laid-back, hippy-dippy lifestyle isn't exactly in Kate's...
Author
Language
English
Description
Set against the powerful lakeshore landscape of northern Minnesota, Safe from the Sea is a heartfelt novel in which a son returns home to reconnect with his estranged and dying father thirty-five years after the tragic wreck of a Great Lakes ore boat that the father only partially survived and that has divided them emotionally ever since. When his father for the first time finally tells the story of the horrific disaster he has carried with him so...
5) Grandmaster
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books, Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"A father-son chess tournament reveals the dark side of the game"--
6) Hot iron
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In the early days of the Texas Panhandle, starting a new life is hard. Espy Norwood is a troubleshooter who's got troubles of his own--and more troubles find him when he lands a job on a ranch on the Texas plains. Bitter landowners plot against him, determined cattle thieves sneak right under his nose, and his own son refuses to trust or even know him. Can he catch the thieves, save the ranch, and win his son's love.
9) Steal
Author
Series
Instinct volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Imagine everyone's surprise when Carter von Oehson, a sophomore in Dr. Dylan Reinhart's Abnormal Psychology class, posts on Instagram that he plans to kill himself. 24 hours later and still no one has seen him. Release the hounds. A massive search ensues. But when Carter's sailboat rolls in with the tide without him or anyone else on it, the worst seems to be confirmed. He really did it... Or did he? The one person convinced he's still alive is...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The happily-ever-after that teenagers Sam and Emily envisioned for themselves is turned on its head when Sam's unstable father makes a jailbreak and comes after his sons and Emily for revenge.
11) Ripper
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Adopted by famous Pinkerton Agency Detective Hawking in 1895 New York, fourteen-year-old Carver Young hopes to find his birth father, but when he becomes involved in the pursuit of notorious killer Jack the Ripper, Carver discovers that finding the truth can be worse than ignorance.
12) The father
Author
Series
Made in Sweden volume 1
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Father, part one of a two-novel series, is based on an extraordinary true story of three brothers who committed a string of audacious bank robberies in Sweden that paralyzed the nation in the 1990s.
13) There, there
Author
Publisher
Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"There, there, Hansie Bear. You'll be better soon" That's what Hansie's dad says whenever Hansie hurts himself, and it always makes Hansie feel better. So when Dad gets a thorn in his foot, Hansie knows just what to do.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Finn Easton, sixteen and epileptic, struggles to feel like more than just a character in his father's cult-classic novels with the help of his best friend, Cade Hernandez, and first love, Julia, until Julia moves away.
Author
Series
Max Rupert and Joe Talbert volume 5
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Joe Talbert, Jr. has never once met his namesake. Now out of college, a cub reporter for the Associated Press in Minneapolis, he stumbles across a story describing the murder of a man named Joseph Talbert in a small town in southern Minnesota. Full of curiosity about whether this man might be his father, Joe is shocked to find that none of the town's residents have much to say about the dead man-other than that his death was long overdue. Joe discovers...
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When Artemis learns that his father has been kidnapped by the Russian mob, he races to the Arctic Circle to make a daring rescue where he finds an old acquaintance, Captain Holly Short, who is investigating a plot of the goblin mob.
Author
Series
Henry and Mudge volume 24
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mudge looks forward to the Mother's Day surprise that Henry and his father cook up for Henry's mother.
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Six-year-old Gwen writes a letter to Santa Claus asking for a pink Twinkle Bike. But when Gwen's bike accidentally gets left behind at the North Pole, it's up to Santa's son Arthur to get the bike to Gwen and save Christmas!
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Gregory Korenstein-Jasperton is an eleven-year-old boy who likes to write stories and poems and is not excited by math, but he has a problem--he is the middle child in a family of math geniuses and his father expects him to participate in the City Math contest.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Language
English
Description
"A Black father makes amends with his gay son through letters written on his deathbed in this wise and penetrating novel of empathy and forgiveness, for fans of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robert Jones Jr. and Alice Walker. As Jacob lies dying, he begins to write a letter to his only son, Isaac. They have not met or spoken in many years, and there are things that Isaac must know. Stories about his ancestral legacy in rural Arkansas that extend back to slavery....
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