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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A devastating story of one family's border-crossing adventure to rescue one another and make peace with the past, set in the former Soviet republic of Georgia, two years after the occupation of South Ossetia by Russia in 2008"--
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When the principal of the super competitive Benjamin Banneker STEAM Academy announces the start of an epic Team Competition, Frederick Douglass Zezzmer is determined to win the trophy and prove to his dad he's worthy, but soon he learns there is no "i" in Team.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
213 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The owner of a gun store embarks on a scheme to avoid bankruptcy by using his son's resurrection from a near-fatal drug overdose to create what he believes is the greatest television commercial anyone has ever seen"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
431 pages ; 22 cm
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.
Author
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When brothers Max and Jay help a classmate in trouble, they struggle with the consequences of their violent actions and worry they may be more like their abusive father than they thought, so the brothers turn to their Bribri roots to find their way forward.
Author
Series
McCray Family volume 2
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
148 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discovering that a local shelter is looking for temporary homes for their dogs over the Christmas holidays, Todd, a developmentally challenged young man, persuades his reluctant family to take in a special canine named Christmas, who teaches an entire community a lesson in the transforming power of love and goodwill.
Author
Publisher
Wordsong, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning author Nikki Grimes's beloved novel in verse Garvey's Choice is now a graphic novel, imaginatively and dramatically illustrated by Little Shaq artist Theodore Taylor III"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A boy and his father go on a camping trip and despite one disaster after another, in the end father and son agree it was their best weekend ever!"--
9) Small worlds
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 24 cm
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...
Author
Series
Hometown hunters volume 3
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
144 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Dré and his father go on a hunting trip, everything seems to go wrong: from a near plane crash to an avalanche. Then Dré and his dad find themselves hunted by a giant Kodiak brown bear and wondering if they'll live to tell the tale.
11) Edge of madness
Author
Series
Edge of collapse volume 2
Publisher
Paper Moon Press
Pub. Date
[2021].
Physical Desc
v, 302 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a world without power, can one man protect his son? When small-town cop Noah Sheridan takes his son Milo to a local ski resort, the power going out is the last thing he expects. Until phones and vehicles stop working, too. What starts as a father-son holiday soon turns deadly. And when an impending blizzard cuts off the town from the rest of civilization, it'll take everything Noah has to keep his family and friends alive... When the country goes...
12) Edge of darkness
Author
Series
Edge of collapse volume 3
Publisher
Paper Moon Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
iii, 347 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A world without power grows dark and deadly... Liam and Hannah continue their dangerous journey, but their every step is dogged by a deadly adversary. Hunted and exhausted, will they have what it takes to get home? In Fall Creek, Noah struggles to protect his son and his friends. With the town running out of food and fuel, and the cold as brutal as ever, they're forced to make compromises that may place them in even greater danger... When the country...
Author
Publisher
Minerva
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Little Jesús is excited to spend a Saturday with his landscaper Papá at the "family business." He loves Papá's cool truck and all the tools he gets to use. Papá even puts him in charge of the magical water jug, which is also a clock! When it's empty, Papá explains, the workday will be done. It's a big job, and Jesús wants to do it right. But he just can't help giving water to an array of thirsty animals--a dog in a sweater, some very old cats,...
14) Be mine
Author
Series
A Frank Bascombe novel volume 4
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the most indelible characters in American literature Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive, and singular view of American life as lived. Unconstrained, astute, provocative, often laugh-out-loud funny, Frank Bascombe is once more our guide to the great American midway....
15) Untamed cowboy
Author
Series
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
472 p.
Language
English
Description
In Gold Valley, Oregon, love might be hiding in plain sight... Some things are too perfect to mess with. Bennett Dodge's relationship with Kaylee Capshaw is one of them. They work together at their veterinary clinic and have been best friends for years. When Bennett's world is rocked by the appearance of a son he didn't know he had, he needs Kaylee more than ever. And he doesn't want anything else to change. But then Kaylee kisses him, and nothing...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Wonderland
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In this rhyming adaptation for children of "Why a Son Needs a Dad: 100 Reasons" by Gregory E. Lang, a father holds his newborn son and lists all the ways he will help him grow, reminding him to be independent, upstanding, humble, and, most important, true to himself.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Sunny's father enters a video game he finds himself as the evil King Viking, but he is not very good at playing, so King Viking finds himself falling down and getting lost, and wondering if he will ever escape from the game.
18) Mixed up
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-olds Reef and Theo have a mutual problem: their memories are getting mixed up, and that means that Reef is losing his memory of his mother, recently dead of COVID, which terrifies him--but for Theo his new memories are helping him deal with his domineering father.
19) One on one
Author
Series
Buddy Steel mystery volume 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When legendary sheriff Burton Steel summons his son Buddy home from LAPD Homicide, a reluctant Buddy agrees. Burton is debilitated by ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease. While Buddy is to cover his back, not an assignment he wants, the clincher is it's his last chance to connect with his proud, overbearing parent. What Buddy doesn't expect is to encounter crime in Freedom, a privileged coastal community a hundred miles north of Los Angeles, as vicious and...