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Ramona Quimby volume 4
Language
English
Description
Beverly Cleary's Newbery Honor Book depicts an average middle-class family dealing with the realities of life. With the perfect mix of humor and warmth, Ramona Quimby shines as a spirited girl with her heart set on helping.
Seven-year-old Ramona world is turned upside-down when her father unexpectedly loses his job. Things grow tense in the Quimby house, but Ramona resolves to help in any way she can—even downsizing
...2) Hair love
Author
Language
English
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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.
7) The plan
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Coping with a loss, a father and daughter rediscover an important piece of family history and begin to build a new life filled with adventure, in a book that features twenty letter-by-letter word shifts.
8) Druthers
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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.
9) The Sigh
Author
Publisher
Archaia Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When a rich merchant who always brings gifts home from the market for his three daughters is unable to find the blue bean seed that his youngest daughter, Rose, has requested, her sigh of resignation attracts a mysterious being named the Sigh, who produces the desired seed and departs after the merchant promises him a later favor. Rose happily plants the seed and tends to her bean plant every day for a year, but then the Sigh returns and demands...
10) Daddy's sandwich
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Daddy, would you like a sandwich, with all your favourite things ...? Join one little girl as she makes her dad the perfect sandwich, whether he likes it or not ..."--Back cover.
Author
Series
Vengeance (Gregg Olsen) volume 1
Publisher
Polis Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Rylee comes home from school to find her father dead and mother missing, and a message in blood written on the floor.
Author
Series
Coyote Sunrise volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Coyote and her father rush to Poplin Springs, Washington, in their old school bus to save a memory box buried in a park that will soon be demolished.
14) Song of the deep
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books, an imprint of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Merryn lives with her fisherman father in a little cottage by the sea. Each day, her father braves the tumultuous waves and returns home in time for dinner. One stormy evening, he doesn't come back. Merryn has a vision that he's been dragged underwater by a terrifying sea creature, and he needs her help. Determined to rescue him, Merryn builds a tiny submarine and embarks on a journey through the undersea worlds she's only heard about...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
Runaway ferrets, former BFF drama-trauma, and one gigantic (and very, very public) belly flop. No doubt about it, Callie Boone's summer is crummy. The only things keeping her afloat are dive practice with her dad and a top-secret Olympic dream. Then a boy named Hoot-who is not her boyfriend!-moves in next door and turns her world upside down and right-side up.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"San Jose, 1999. Jane knows her Vietnamese dad can't control his temper. Lost in a stupid daydream, she forgot to pick up her seven-year-old brother, Paul, from school. Inside their home, she hands her dad the stick he hits her with. This is how it's always been. She deserves this. Not because she forgot to pick up Paul, but because at the end of the summer she's going to leave him when she goes away to college. As Paul retreats inward, Jane realizes...
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Language
English
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Description
"It's the first day of the holidays and Sam is roaming the island of Texel, imagining what it'd feel like to be the last person on earth. Then, like a whirlwind, 12-year-old islander Tess swoops into his life. Sam's only option is to go along for the ride. Soon he's dancing the waltz, burying a pet canary and coming up with an especially weird plan to help Tess find her father, who doesn't even know she exists. Along the way, Sam discovers the true...
18) Together we ride
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Told in rhyming text, a young African American girl learns to ride a bike, with the help of her father.
19) Tell me
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Feeling scared and powerless when her father's anger escalates and her parents separate, twelve-year-old Anna spends the summer with her grandmother and decides to make a difference when she sees what seems to be a girl held against her will.
20) Honey
Author
Language
English
Formats
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.
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