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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Recruited by the U.S. Marshals to create false histories for people in witness protection, like his father, writer Jack Givins uses this opportunity to find his dad--a man who has done terrible things and made deadly enemies who wouldn't think twice about using his own son against him.
Author
Series
Frank Bascombe novels volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frank Bascombe details and confronts his own morality and that of his son, just diagnosed with ALS, on a shared winter odyssey to Mount Rushmore.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Set in 1990s India, Shagun, joining a traveling theater troupe, thrives and finds love with a handsome photographer, but is unable to free himself from his lingering shame and his father’s threats to send him to a conversion center until he finds the strength to boldly claim his own happiness.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Ten years after the death of the magnetic Donald "Sully" Sullivan, the town of North Bath is going through a major transition as it is annexed by its much wealthier neighbor, Schuyler Springs. Peter, Sully's son, is still grappling with his father's tremendous legacy as well as his relationship to his own son, Thomas, wondering if he has been all that different a father than Sully was to him. Meanwhile, the towns' newly consolidated police department...
Author
Publisher
Wordsong, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This graphic novel version of the best-selling book follows Garvey who, overweight, bullied and lonely, finally finds his voice when he joins the school chorus, discovering a way to reach his distant father by speaking the language of music.
9) Small worlds
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Set over the course of three summers, Small Worlds follows Stephen, a first-generation Londoner born to Ghanaian immigrant parents, brother to Ray, and best friend to Adeline. On the cusp of big life changes, Stephen feels pressured to follow a certain track-a university degree, a move out of home-but when he decides instead to follow his first love, music, his world and family fracture in ways he didn't foresee. Now Stephen must find a path and...
10) Eclipse
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"After hearing about the total solar eclipse happening in two months, a boy makes a plan with his father to go see it. They drive to the perfect campsite, not wanting to miss the couple of minutes when the sun will be completely hidden by the moon. When the moment happens, being together makes it even more special. Based on the eclipse in August 2017, the book features maps of eclipses' paths and scientific back matter about eclipses"--
11) Whistling
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While on a camping trip with his father, a boy draws on the whistling practice they have shared and finally whistles up the sun.
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