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Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Description
It's time for the little red chicken's bedtime story -- and a reminder from Papa to try not to interrupt. But the chicken can't help herself! Whether the tale is "Hansel and Gretel" or "Little Red Riding Hood" or even "Chicken Little," she jumps into the story to save its hapless characters. When it's the little red chicken's turn to tell a story, will her yawning papa make it to the end without his own kind of interrupting?
2) Owl moon
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl.
Author
Series
Mortal engines volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012, ©2006
Physical Desc
532 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
While dealing with people from their past and treachery from unexpected sources, Tom, Hester, and Wren return to save the world.
4) Hair love
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A little girl's daddy steps in to help her arrange her curly, coiling, wild hair into styles that allow her to be her natural, beautiful self.
5) Somewhere
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A young girl and her father walk through familiar streets on a brilliant, sun-drenched day. When they reach a park, the girl lets go of her father's hand. It is time for her to journey out on her own. As her father keeps watch, she finds an unfamiliar place--an extraordinary forest that blooms around her, lush and larger than life. She plays among gigantic leaves, discovers treasures, and thinks of how her father would love this place, too. She retraces...
7) Honey
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
152 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When she suspects that her father has a girlfriend, Melody and her best friend are determined to figure out who it is and why it is a secret.
9) Skinny
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the death of their father, two sisters struggle with various issues, including their family history, personal relationships, and an extreme eating disorder.
10) Druthers
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Challenged to use her imagination on a boring, rainy day, little Penelope shares time with her daddy while envisioning herself at the zoo, as a cowgirl, flying to the moon, and sailing to an island filled with dinosaurs.
12) Just Juice
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
iv, 138 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Realizing that her father's lack of work has endangered her family, nine-year-old Juice decides that she must return to school and learn to read in order to help their chances of surviving and keeping their house.
13) Hunted
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the experiences of an aristocrat's daughter, Yeva, who tracks a mysterious woodland creature her father has become obsessed with and that stands at the center of his failing sanity.
Yeva knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who's ever come close to discovering them. Out in the wilderness there's no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas, or to submit to marrying a wealthy gentleman. When...
14) Faraway home
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Desta's father, who needs to return briefly to his Ethiopian homeland, describes what it was like for him to grow up there.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
As a young girl seeks reassurances to more elaborate what-ifs, her father's reassurances paint a picture of infinite care, showing her there is no limit to the love he has for her.
16) The lucky list
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Rising high school senior Emily felt lucky until her mother's death, but now, with childhood friend Blake, she sets out to accomplish every exciting, scary, and intimidating task on her mother's bucket list.
Author
Series
Pax volume 2
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
246 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
It has been a year since newly orphaned Peter and his pet fox Pax, now a protective father, have seen each other, but their paths cross again when Pax's kit falls desperately ill forcing him to turn to the one human he knows he can trust.
18) Crow call
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Liz accompanies the stranger who is her father, just returned from the war, when he goes hunting for crows in Pennsylvania farmland.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
117 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her absent-minded inventor father suddenly remembers that he has five sisters, nine-year-old Harriet Bean, who has never heard of them before, determines to find her unknown aunts so that the unfinished family portrait can be completed.
20) Just fly away
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Lucy Willows discovers that her father had an illegitimate child, now an eight-year-old boy who lives in the same town, and she begins to question everything she thought she knew about her family and life.