fathers and sons

"The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He's also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental neurofeedback treatment to bolster Robin's emotional control, one that involves training the boy on the recorded patterns of his mother's brain"--Provided by publisher.

Cameron is used to moving at a moment's notice because he and his mother are always running away from his supposedly violent father, but he is disturbed by their latest refuge, a creepy, deserted farmhouse, haunted by bloodthirsty dogs--and when he sees a boy hiding in the barn, and finds an old picture of the same boy, he starts wondering about the possibility of human ghosts.

"When tragedy shatters Alex's world and he's forced to live with his estranged father, he's given a peace offering with a red coat, lightning speed, and a fighting spirit that just might heal Alex's heart and reunite father and son"--Publisher.

"Johari loves daddy days, when he and his father make scrumptious pancakes, ride trains, play ball and talk about concepts like thick and thin, tall and short, and humongous"--Back cover.

Presents an English translation of the seventeenth-century drama by Spanish playwright Pedro Calderon de la Barca, about Segismundo, a prince imprisoned from birth by his father, King Basilio, who fears a prophecy that he will be defeated by his son in civil war.

A young boy adores his jazz musician father and contemplates becoming a performer himself.

Skipper is the daddy for one day and his dad is the son!.

When his father leads him on a magical trip of discovery through new fallen snow, a young boy who emigrated from his warm island home overcomes fears about living in New York.

A collection of three stories, featuring the title piece about the relationship between a father and his two sons, bound together by love and fly fishing.

A memoir chronicling the author's upbringing in a Philadelphia housing project in the 1960s, covering his father's erratic and emotional behavior and his own flight from the confines of his youth to follow his dreams and better his circumstances.