father-son relationship

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father-son relationship

Football fugitive

1976
Representing a pro football player whom his son admires brings a lawyer closer to his young son.

The Hemingway tradition

2002
Shaw, struggling to understand the suicide of his famous author father, moves from Vancouver to Winnipeg with his mother and is finally able, with the help of his mom and new friends, to come to terms with his loss.

The next better place

a father and son on the road
2003
Michael Keith chronicles the experiences he and his alcoholic father had while they hitchhiked around the country when the author was a boy.

Seeing stars

2002
Alex Isaccson, burdened by the disappearance of his father and a mother who has not left her bed in twelve years, receives a life-changing shock when he goes searching for the truth.

Cat found

2011
In a town where cats are tormented, eleven-year-old Billy finds Conga, injured and unappealing, and hides her in his bedroom to recover, then begins a crusade to stop the cat killers and find a safe haven for strays.

Muffler man

2001
Chuy works hard at the muffler shop to earn enough money to join his father in America, where together they create an army of "muffler men," statues made from old muffler parts, that they scatter around the city. Text in English and Spanish.

Fishing with dad

1996
A young boy goes fishing with his father and, as an adult, recalls his dad's fishing secret when he sees him with his grandson.

Crosswire

2010
When an 1883 drought drives free-range cattlemen to shred Texas ranchers' barbed wire fences and steal water, thirteen-year-old Jesse works hard to help while dealing with his father and brother's falling-out and his own fear of guns.

Wolf rider

2008
After receiving an apparently crank call from a man claiming to have committed murder, fifteen-year-old Andy finds his close relationship with his father crumbling as he struggles to make everyone believe him.

Baseball fever

2000
Ten-year-old Ezra tries to convince his scholarly father that his baseball fever is not wasting his mind.

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