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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
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...
722) October, October
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
October and her dad live in the woods. They sleep in the house Dad built for them and eat the food they grow in the vegetable patches. They know the trees and the rocks and the lake and stars like best friends. They read the books they buy in town again and again until the pages are soft and yellow -- until next year's town visit. They live in the woods and they are wild. And that's the way it is. Until the year October turns eleven. That's the year...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Multiple
Description
Every night before bedtime Dad read tales to his daughter. Sometimes he had to leave for business to the other cities, and the girl could not fall asleep without the tales to which she was accustomed. Then Dad found a solution. He began to call his daughter on Skype to wish her goodnight and read a story. Her favorite fairy tales are collected in this book. This book presents Polish Folk Tales and fairy tales by famous European authors: Hans Christian...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market edition.
Language
English
Description
Summer has arrived! But as the community gears up for another festive strawberry-picking season, the villagers are shocked when local berry farmer Miles Crawford is found dead in a hoophouse near his strawberry fields. Rumors have been swirling around about a secret real estate deal between Miles and Lydia St. Graves. And now Lydia is missing after she was seen fleeing the scene of the crime. When Henry "Doc" Holliday becomes involved in the mystery,...
Author
Series
Hometown hunters volume 5
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Revised edition.
Language
English
Description
"Blair Thomas lives in the friendly, lakeside town of Lainey, Michigan, on the beautiful shores of the Lake Huron. Lainey boasts superb hunting opportunities and offers visitors miles of sandy shoreline and weekend tours of the historic Tesla Lighthouse. It is the beginning of the fall, duck hunting season, and Blair and her dad are busy preparing for her very first duck hunt. The forecast is calling for extremely high winds and rain, absolutely perfect...
726) Interrupting chicken
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Wonderbooks edition.
Language
English
Description
Little Red Chicken wants Papa to read her a bedtime story, but interrupts him almost as soon as he begins each tale.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Quinn has heard all her life about how untrustworthy men are, so when she discovers that her charismatic but selfish father, with whom she has recently begun to have a tentative relationship, has stolen from the many women in his life, she decides she must avenge this wrong.
728) Yotsuba&!: 15
Author
Series
Yotsuba&! volume 15
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
Language
English
Description
"Yotsuba is going to school--almost! Fuuka says at school you read and write and do tests! A test is where you write your name at the top and answer questions. Yotsuba got all the questions right, so Fuuka gave her a perfect score! And, and, you get to paint with big-girl paints like Ena, wear a backpack, make picture books, and collect pretty rocks! School is gonna be great! Right?"--Back cover.
729) Amor de pelo
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
El pelo de Zuri le permite ser ella misma. Se enrolla o se riza para convertirse en una corona de princesa o una capa de superhéroe. ¡Pero un día súperespecial necesita un peinado súperespecial! Peine en mano, papá le ayuda a Zuri a encontrar el look perfecto. Amor de pelo celebra los rizos que son solo tuyos, el lazo entre padres e hijas y la alegría que te llena cuando puedes expresarte libremente.
Zuri's hair lets her be herself....
730) A tale of two cities
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
When Emilia de Wit ran away to New York City, she planned everything to a T. Plane ticket, purchased. Cute apartment, rented online. Subway map, printed and highlighted. This was no ordinary trip -- this was Emilia's declaration of independence. Her chance to escape the life her parents were ruining. To get away from the horrible scandal that had rocked Amsterdam, the scandal that was all her dad's fault. To see if her mom, the glamorous, world-famous...
732) Faster! faster!
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First board book edition.
Language
English
Description
A funny tale of few words about a day at the park and a ride on Daddy's back.
733) Call forth a fox
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The western wood is where Ro's father built their garden, taught her to forage, and told her tales of the faeries who live there how to summon them, how to protect herself, and warnings of what they are capable of. Now, her father is gone, the garden has withered, and their family is struggling. Her mother and sister want to move into town, but Ro doesn't want to give up the memories of her father and his stories or the charming village girl who...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A trip to the laundromat leads to a momentous occasion when Trixie, too young to speak words, realizes that something important is missing and struggles to explain the problem to her father. Using a combination of muted black-and-white photographs and expressive illustrations, this book tells a true-to-life tale about what happens when Daddy's in charge and things go terribly, hilariously wrong.
In this special edition of Mo Willems's beloved and...
737) Daddy's girl
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
First board book edition.
Language
English
Description
A picture book celebrates the relationship between a father and his little girl, following them throughout the day as they turn ordinary events into the extraordinary. On board pages.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Join Lulu and her papa as they spend a perfect day together. They take a hike complete with rock-skipping at the stream, make a delicious pancake breakfast, and build a birdhouse. Even hanging the laundry to dry is an adventure when Ladybug Girl is with Papa. This sweet story captures the everyday magic of the love between a little girl and her dad.
739) Jane Austen's Emma
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Presents Jane Austen's story of an would-be matchmaker, condensed to twelve words, and accompanied by hand-felted illustrations.
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