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181) A walk in the woods
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A grieving son follows a treasure map his late father left him through the woods they used to explore together.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After discovering a secret that makes him question the honor of being the son of Poseidon, demi-god Percy Jackson journeys into the Sea of Monsters in an attempt to save Camp Half-Blood.
183) The brave: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Tom Bedford has put his past behind him--until his son Danny is charged with murder. In the chaos of war, Danny has been caught in a violent skirmish gone bloodily awry, and the Army needs someone to pay for the mistake. Shocked into action, Tom confronts the violence in his past and fights to save the son he'd let slip away.
184) Sea Hawke
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Gentleman spy and MI6 legend Alex Hawke finds his plans for some R&R thwarted by his boss who wants to use him to drive a knife into the heart of a conspiracy involving an unholy alliance of nations who are plotting to attack Western democracies.
185) The sea elephants
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.
186) The storm runner
Author
Series
Storm runner volume 1
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
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.
187) Back of beyond
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who's fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. Sober for fourteen years, Hank took pride in his hard-won sobriety and never hesitated to drop whatever he was doing to talk Cody off a ledge. When Cody...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Returning to his childhood home when his father is diagnosed with cancer, an aspiring writer who pays the rent by slinging peanuts at baseball games discovers that his father's health fails whenever the Red Sox lose, a finding that leads a group of supporters to orchestrate the illusion of a Sox winning streak.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Ignored by his father and sent to Derbyshire for the weekend, twelve-year-old Peter and his new friend, Kate, are accidentally transported back in time to 1763 England where they are befriended by a reformed cutpurse.
191) The frame-up
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old artist Sargent Singer must team up with some very unusual partners to thwart a theft of the masterpieces in the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. Includes facts about Lord Beaverbrook, the gallery's founder.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Marty goes in search of the mythical Train of Lost Things, hoping that by finding his most precious possession he can save his father from cancer, but he discovers that, without a driver and conductor, the train is malfunctioning and only Marty and his new friends can fix it.
193) Still life Las Vegas
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Scanning Las Vegas tourists in the hopes of spotting the mother who abandoned him as a young child, Walter confronts his own growing sense of self in the wake of new friendships, in a story complemented by graphic-novel inserts.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Hamilton Squidlegger is fearless! Well, almost. During the day he can best all the frackensnappers, skelecragons, and bracklesneeds in the swamp, but at night he quakes in terror. Will his father be able to help Hamilton remain fearless in his own mud all night?
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.
197) Somebody's fool
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...
198) Kipling's choice
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1915, mortally wounded in Loos, France, eighteen-year-old John Kipling, son of writer Rudyard Kipling, remembers his boyhood and the events leading to what is to be his first and last World War I battle.
Author
Publisher
Amistad 35, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When Ramadan Ramsey, the son of a ninth generation New Orleans African American and a Syrian refugee, turns 17, he sets off to find the father he has never known—an adventure-filled journey filled that takes him from NOLA to Egypt, Istanbul and finally Syria.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
With help from his storyteller son, Charlie Barnes, a lifelong schemer and eternal romantic who would like out of his present circumstances, is granted a second act and, at last, through an act of selflessness and love, becomes the man his son always knew he could be.
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