father-son relationship

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father-son relationship

Killing time in Crystal City

2015
Seventeen-year-old Kevin tries to reinvent himself when he runs away from home and the father he hates, but living with a mysterious uncle and befriending two homeless girls just adds more complications.

Family life

a novel
Finally joining their father in America, Ajay and Birju enjoy their new, extraordinary life until tragedy strikes, leaving one brother incapacitated and the other practically orphaned in this strange land.

Finding Nemo read-along

2006
Nemo, a brave little clownfish who has been scooped up and placed in a tank by a scuba diver, plots his escape while his father mounts a dangerous search for his missing son.

When the stars begin to fall

1986
Angry and frustrated that his entire family is considered to be poor trash, fourteen-year-old Harry defies his father and attempts to prove that a factory is polluting their small Adirondack community.

Jump into the sky

2013
In 1945, thirteen-year-old Levi is sent to find the father he has not seen in three years, going from Chicago, to segregated North Carolina, and finally to Pendleton, Oregon, where he learns that his father's unit, the all-Black 555th paratrooper battalion, will never see combat but finally has a mission.

Winter danger

2005
A young pioneer boy must adjust to settled frontier life when his father leaves him with relatives during a particularly hard winter and returns to the woods.

Babe and Me

2000
With their ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe and his father have the opportunity to find out whether Babe Ruth really did call his shot when he hit that homerun in the third game of the 1932 World Series against the Chicago Cubs. Subjects Ruth, Babe, 1895-1948 Juvenile fiction.

The Purple Heart

2000
When his wounded father is sent home early from Vietnam, Luke finds it difficult to adjust to the troubled, emotionally shaken man who seems so unlike the fearless hero of his dreams.

A dream to follow

2001
Thorliff Bjorklund has dreamed of being a writer since he was a young boy, but in order to pursue a writing career, Thorliff must go against his father's wishes.

King of the screwups

[a novel]
2009
After getting in trouble yet again, popular high school senior Liam, who never seems to live up to his wealthy father's expectations, is sent to live in a trailer park with his gay "glam-rocker" uncle.

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