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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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A large-format illustrated edition of the first volume in the Percy Jackson series, wherein he's "about to be kicked out of boarding school--again. And that's the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of them. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime...
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Series
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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In the opening of a six-part serial novel, businessman Joel Byler has gotten himself into a financial bind and his eccentric, wealthy Amish father is done bailing out his spoiled son. Will Joel learn he must pay for his own mistakes -- and at what cost?
Author
Series
Amish millionaire volume 2
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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New York Times Best Selling author Wanda E. Brunstetter pens a compelling new 6-part serial novel along with her daughter-in-law, Jean. In Part 2, The Stubborn Father, widower Eustace Byler stands out in his Amish community for his eccentricity and his wealth and mourns for his worldly son as if he were already dead.
4) Keep quiet
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"Jake Whitmore is enjoying a rare bonding moment with his sixteen-year-old son, Kurt, when disaster strikes. They get in a terrible car accident that threatens to derail not only Kurt's chances at college, but his entire future. Jake makes a split-second decision that saves his son from formal punishment, but plunges them both into a world of guilt, lies, and secrecy. Just when Jake thinks he has everything under control, a malevolent outsider comes...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Young Readers, an imprint of Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam"--
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Series
Amish legacy volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In the first installment of bestseller Amy Clipston's brand-new series, an Amish widower with three grown sons discovers that another chance at love may be waiting for him"--
Crystal Glick has lived with her brother's family since her father died and her fiancé, Owen, broke their engagement. She cheerfully helps her sister-in-law through a difficult pregnancy with babies number seven and eight, but she yearns for a husband and children of her own....
7) Fireside
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Series
Lakeshore chronicles volume 5
Language
English
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Bo Crutcher, a professional baseball player, gets help from Kimberly van Dorn, a public relations expert, in dealing with both the media and his long-lost son, AJ. While spending the winter with Bo and AJ at Willow Lake, Kimberly begins to fall in love.
8) The Match
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Series
Wilde (Harlan Coben) volume 2
Language
English
Description
Wilde has grown up knowing nothing of his family, and even less about his own identity. All he knows is that, as a young child, he was found living a feral existence in the Ramapo mountains of New Jersey. He became known simply as Wilde, the boy from the woods. Now Wilde has had a hit on the DNA website he has been researching. A 100% match. His father. They meet up, and Wilde soon realises that his father doesn't even know he had a son and is as...
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Deeper than the dead novels volume 1
Language
English
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California, 1985. Detective Tony Mendez, fresh from a law enforcement course at FBI headquarters, is charged with discovering the identity of a brutal, calculating psychopath. His search pushes him ever deeper into the lives of three children, and closer to the young teacher whose interest in recent events becomes as intense as his own.
Author
Series
Max Rupert novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Cub reporter Joe Talbert, Jr. investigates the murder of a man with the same name as him in a small town in Minnesota and discovers the deceased was a loathsome lowlife who may be his father.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"What if Darth Vader took an active role in raising his son? What if 'Luke, I am your father' was just a stern admonishment from an annoyed dad? In this hilarious and sweet comic reimagining, Darth Vader is a dad like any other-- except with all the baggage of being the Dark Lord of the Sith. Celebrated artist Jeffrey Brown's delightful illustrations give classic Star Wars moments a fresh twist, presenting the trials and joys of parenting through...
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English
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"In 1979, Vincent Bianco has just graduated high school. His only desire: collect a little beer money and enjoy his final summer before college. So he lands a job as a laborer on a construction crew. Working alongside two Vietnam vets, one suffering from PTSD, Vincent gets the education of a lifetime. Now forty years later, with his own son leaving for college, the lessons of that summer - Vincent's last taste of innocence and first taste of real...
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Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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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.
16) Last man out
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Tommy Gallagher, the bravest and toughest football player on the field, faces his biggest battle ever when his father, a Boston firefighter, is fatally injured while rescuing a child.
17) Kotch
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
A heartwarming comedy, directed by Jack Lemmon, about an eccentric widower who befriends a feisty teenage mother-to-be.
18) Bones don't lie
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Series
Morgan Dane novels volume 3
Language
English
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Private investigator Lance Kruger was just a boy when his father vanished twenty-three years ago. Since then he's lived under the weight of that disappearance--until his father's car is finally dredged up from the bottom of Grey Lake. It should be a time for closure, except for the skeleton found in the trunk. A missing person case gone cold has become one of murder, and Lance and attorney Morgan Dane must face the deadly past that's risen to the...
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