father-son relationship

In 1927, Nate Owens, thirteen, sets out from Bristol, Tennessee, against the wishes of his father, a self-proclaimed preacher, to find himself and the song he thinks will heal his broken family.

Abelardo defies his father's instructions and sets out to free a whale caught in their tangled fishing net.

Thirteen-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl must join forces with his nemesis, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police, in order to save his father--one of the few people in the world Artemis loves--who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya.

While preparing for the Esquire Examination at True Cross Academy, Rin and the other exorcists-in-training find themselves confronted with a demon, but they are unsure if it is part of a training exercise or for real.

Rin runs into trouble when his sword is stolen by Amaimon, while he and his classmates are searching for a ghost, and higher powers make their presence known to the students of True Cross Academy.

"Buddy Pennington is headed to river country, hoping his luck might change. He'll be better off with his daddy, a wandering soul and a local legend for his skills at Parsnit, a mysterious card game of magic, chance, and storytelling. But no sooner are Buddy and his pop reunited than some of Pop's old enemies arrive to take him away. Boss Authority, the magical crime lord who has held the rivers in his grasp for years, is ready to collect on an old debt Buddy's father owes. Now Buddy must set out on a dangerous rescue mission, learning to play Parsnit with the best of them as he goes. Because the stars are aligning for one last epic duel--one that will require a sticky-fingered ally, a lucky twist of fate, and the hand of a lifetime. And in this game, you're only as strong as the story you tell"--Amazon.

After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods and joins a quest to prevent a war between the gods.

A collection of poems about a thirteen-year-old boy whose father abandoned him and his family.

A teenage boy accompanies his father, who has recently escaped from prison, on a trip that turns out to be an often painful time of discovery for them both.

In 2097, men are a small and controlled minority in a utopian world ruled by women, and fourteen-year-old Kellen must fight to save his father from an outbreak of the virus that killed ninety-seven percent of the male population thirty years earlier.