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2) Solo
Author
Publisher
Blink
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Blade endeavors to resolve painful issues from his past and navigate the challenges of his former rockstar father's addictions, scathing tabloid rumors, and a protected secret that threatens his own identity.
Author
Series
Garvey novels (Nikki Grimes) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Garvey's father has always wanted Garvey to be athletic, but Garvey is interested in astronomy, science fiction, reading--anything but sports. Feeling like a failure, he comforts himself with food. Garvey is kind, funny, smart, a loyal friend, and he is also overweight, teased by bullies, and lonely. When his only friend encourages him to join the school chorus, Garvey's life changes. The chorus finds a new soloist in Garvey, and through chorus,...
Author
Publisher
Lilydale Press
Pub. Date
©2022.
Language
English
Description
"Autumn is a season full of wonderful changes. The weather starts getting colder, and the leaves turn beautiful colors and fall, causing the trees to become bare. Come explore how this father and his son fill an autumn day with fun things to do despite so much change." -- back cover.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
For as long as he can remember, Malcolm has never felt like he was good enough. Not for his parents, who have always seemed at odds with each other, with Malcolm caught in between. And especially not for his dad, whose competitive drive and love for sports Malcolm has never shared. That is, until Malcolm discovers miniature golf, the one sport he actually enjoys. Maybe it's the way in which every hole is a puzzle to be solved. Or the whimsy of the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Ellis discovers family secrets, makes new friends, and adjusts to his parents' recent divorce during a hijinks-filled summer helping his father open the world's first chocolate chip cookie store in 1976 Hollywood.
9) Kid owner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"When Ryan learns his estranged father left him the Dallas Cowboys in his will, it is all Ryan can do to keep his dad's other son from snatching the team away"--
10) Dinged
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old star freshman quarterback Caleb Springer watches his father deteriorate from injuries he suffered playing the very same sport, forcing Caleb to consider whether playing football, the sport of his dreams, is worth risking irreparable physical harm.
11) 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.
12) The Fire Keeper
Author
Series
Storm runner volume 2
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Zane Obispo faces an impossible choice--to save other godborns like himself from the angry gods, or rescue his father, Hurakan, from his eternal prison.
13) Fishing with Dad
Author
Publisher
Lucky Luke, LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The sun is shining, the lake is sparkling, and Lucky Luke can't wait to go Fishing with Dad. A wonderful addition to the Lucky Luke's Hunting Adventures book series, this fun story is sure to get any youngster excited about fishing. So jump on board and see if the fish are biting!" -- page [4] of cover
14) Beginning
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
From a seed to a plant, an egg to a chick, or a caterpillar to a butterfly, a child and father share the cycles in nature and come to see that as each journey ends a new adventure begins.
Author
Series
Publisher
Evergreen Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
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.
16) Finding Nemo
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Nemo, a young clownfish, is captured by divers and trapped in a Sydney dentist's fish tank while his worried father Marlin tries to rescue him.
18) Mixed up
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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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.
Reef and Theo don't know what's happening to them. They'll be going about their days and then suddenly they'll have these strange flashes of memory -- but the memories don't...
19) The crossover
Author
Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
20) Above all else
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eighteen-year-olds Rose and Tate are long-time friends and climbing buddies, and now they are embarking on the greatest climb of all--Mount Everest--with Tate's father and another friend; but as the climbers encounter physical and emotional challenges the higher they go, the expedition starts to slide toward disaster, testing the teens' courage and determination"--Provided by publisher.
Rose and Tate have trained their whole lives to summit Mount...
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