father-son relationship

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father-son relationship

Billy

1994
Billy, a sixteen-year-old boy who becomes reunited with the family he was kidnapped from by his natural father six years earlier, tries to sort out his identity.

Keep laughing

1991
A famous comedian attempts a reunion with the teenage son he abandoned years ago.

Father figure

a novel
1978
After being a father figure for years, Jim and his younger brother are reunited with their divorced father and Jim is forced to find a new role for himself.

Will's story, 1771

2004
In 1771, twelve-year-old Will, the son of a Williamsburg jailer, suspects that a captured runaway slave is planning to escape and tries to decide whether to tell his father.

John's story, 1775

2004
In Williamsburg in 1775, as events threaten to plunge the colonies into war with Britain, eleven-year-old John feels caught between the revolutionary sentiments of his older brother and his father's insistence on a more temperate and patient course of action.

Subway

2010
Simple, rhyming text follows two boys and their father as they spend a rainy day riding the various lines of the New York City subway system.

Dad and me in the morning

1994
A deaf boy and his father share a special time as they watch the sun rise at the beach.

Atomic Ace

(he's just my dad)
2004
In this rhyming story told in comic book format, a boy considers his family normal, though his superhero dad, Atomic Ace, does amazing feats, even battling the evil Insect King.

Finding Nemo

2003
After Nemo is taken from his ocean home, his overly cautious father Marlin teams up with a friendly but forgetful fish named Dory to find his son, even if it means traveling across the entire ocean.

The big stone

1999
After having watched his father live a life of regrets while saddled with a huge stone he feels he must carry around with him, a son finds happiness by choosing to follow his own path rather than that of his father's.

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