fathers

A story about a little boy who misplaces his dad and gets help at the Bureau of Misplaced Dads.

"Ba dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way, they encounter giant buffalo bones, tiger paw prints, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets, sibling rivalry, and glimpses of a different kind of future"--Amazon.

Between his temper getting him in trouble at school and his mother becoming more and more withdrawn, things aren't going very well for twelve-year-old Reggie Wong. He wishes he had his dad to help him, but his dad died two years ago. So when he meets the Conductor who promises to give Reggie the chance to see this father one last time, Reggie jumps at the opportunity and climbs aboard the man's subway train, which leaves St. Patrick station at midnight. Onboard, he finds the train is filled with other children who have lost a loved one like him, including the preppy and quirky Chantal and Gareth, his archnemesis and bully since second grade. But when Reggie finally sees his father waiting for him at the end of the line, he discovers that everything is not what it seems, and Reggie and his unlikely new friends find themselves trapped in the subway tunnels beneath Toronto. Reggie, Chantal, and Gareth must work together to find a way to escape and to stop the Conductor from destroying the world as they know it.

Presents the classic book by Dr. Seuss that pairs rhyming words in simple sentences to help emerging readers.

An illustrated, rhyming celebration of fathers of all kinds. Includes facts about animal fathers.

Illustrations and text celebrate fathers of all shapes, sizes, personalities, and interests.

"A tribute to the joy and grounding that fathers bring to their children's lives"--Provided by publisher.

"When Papa doesn't return from a nocturnal honey-gathering expedition, Cress holds out hope, but her mother assumes the worst. It's a dangerous world for rabbits, after all. Mama moves what's left of the Watercress family to the basement unit of the Broken Arms, a run-down apartment oak with a suspect owl landlord, a nosy mouse super, a rowdy family of squirrels, and a pair of songbirds who broadcast everyone's business. Can a dead tree full of annoying neighbors, and no Papa, ever be home?"--Provided by publisher.

Told in two voices, Pen, whose dream of taking over her family's restaurant has been destroyed, and Xander, a new, undocumented, employee seeking his father, form a bond.

"A coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of an eleven-year-old over the course of a single summer, as she tries to make sense of her new life with her estranged grandfather and sister after the death of her father and disappearance of her mother"--Provided by publisher.