Catalog Search Results
41) The big field
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old baseball player Hutch feels threatened by the arrival of a new teammate named Darryl, he tries to work through his insecurities about both Darryl and his remote and silent father, who was once a great ballplayer too.
42) A solitary blue
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Jeff's mother, who deserted the family years before, reenters his life and widens the gap between Jeff and his father, a gap that only truth, love, and friendship can heal.
43) Elsewhere
Author
Language
English
Description
"Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, in Suavidad Beach. It's a quiet life, until a local eccentric known as Spooky Ed shows up on their doorstep. Ed entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange and dangerous object--something he calls 'the key to everything'--and tells Jeffy that he must never use the device. But after a visit from a group...
44) Some birthday!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
On her birthday Dad takes a young girl and her brother to see the Monster at Clay Pit Bottom.
45) Hatching magic
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Description
When a thirteenth-century wizard confronts twenty-first century Boston while seeking his pet dragon, he is followed by a rival wizard and a very unhappy demon, but eleven-year-old Theodora Oglethorpe may hold the secret to setting everything right.
46) The selfless act
Author
Series
Amish millionaire volume pt. 6
Language
English
Description
Businessman Joel Byler who has gotten himself into a financial bind and his eccentric, wealthy Amish father who is done bailing out his spoiled son. When will Joel learn he most pay for his own mistakes and at what cost to his business, his fiancée, and his Amish siblings?
47) The Promise
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Scott Grant has a bustling family practice in the small Oregon community of Thunder Point. The town and its people have embraced the widowed doctor and father of two, his children are thriving, and Scott knows it's time to move on from his loss. But as the town's only doctor, the dating pool is limited. That is, until a stunning physician's assistant applies for a job at his clinic. Peyton Lacoumette considers herself entirely out of the dating scene....
Author
Series
Amish millionaire volume pt. 5
Language
English
Description
"Meet businessman Joel Byler who has gotten himself into a financial bind and his eccentric, wealthy Amish father who is done bailing out his spoiled son. When will Joel learn he most pay for his own mistakes--and at what cost to his business, his fiancée, and his Amish siblings?"--Provided by publisher.
49) Anansi boys
Author
Series
American gods volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
His past marked by his father's embarrassing taunts and untimely death, Fat Charlie meets the brother he never knew and is introduced to new and exciting ways to spend his time.
50) My dad
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
350L
Language
English
Description
A child describes the many wonderful things about "my dad, " who can jump over the moon, swim like a fish, and be as warm as toast.
Author
Series
Guardians of justice volume 3
Language
English
Description
When Kelly Warren claims her father's suicide was really murder, Detective Cole Taylor becomes embroiled in an investigation that reveals a startling secret.
Author
Language
English
Description
When 11-year-old Daley's parents separate, she is thrust into a chaotic adult world. Unable to place her allegiance, she vacillates between the liberal, socially committed realm of her mother and the conservative, liquor- soaked life of her father. But when her mother leaves, Daley's father's basest impulses are unleashed and she must choose between her own survival and the charismatic father she loves. As she nears adulthood, Daley retreats from...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
2005-2011.
Language
English
Description
As young boys, Edward & Alphonse Elric dabbled in alchemy to try to resurrect their dead mother. As a result, Ed lost one arm and one leg, while Al lost his entire body and had his spirit sealed into a suit of armor. Now, they are searching for the fabled Philosopher's Stone to restore what they've lost.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
To a thirteen-year-old Vermont farm boy whose father slaughters pigs for a living, maturity comes early as he learns "doing what's got to be done, " especially regarding his pet pig who cannot produce a litter.
56) The tree
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Following the death of her husband in a car crash, a grieving widow in the Australian countryside struggles to help her children deal with their loss.
57) A better man
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's Gamache's first day back as head of the homicide department, a job he temporarily shares with his previous second-in-command, Jean-Guy Beauvoir. Flood waters are rising across the province. In the middle of the turmoil a father approaches Gamache, pleading for help in finding his daughter. As crisis piles upon crisis, Gamache tries to hold off the encroaching chaos, and realizes the search for Vivienne Godin should be abandoned. But with a daughter...
58) Shadow of a bull
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Manolo Olivar has to make a decision: to follow in his famous father's shadow and become a bullfighter, or to follow his heart and become a doctor.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From debut author Stacy Willingham comes a masterfully done, lyrical thriller, certain to be the launch of an amazing career. A Flicker in the Dark is eerily compelling to the very last page. When Chloe Davis was twelve, six teenage girls went missing in her small Louisiana town. By the end of the summer, her own father had confessed to the crimes and was put away for life, leaving Chloe and the rest of her family to grapple with the truth and try...