father-son relationship

Sam Flynn, enthralled as a young boy by his father Kevin's stories of a living world inside a computer, has forgotten all about them since his dad disappeared twenty years ago, but when he gets a strange message from a long-closed arcade, he ventures inside and finds his dad's tales were true.

A young boy tells his own version of the day he spends with Daddy while Mommy is out of town, and Mommy vows never to miss all the "fun" ever again.

J.J. Jax is a bully at school and likes to make fun of others kids and call them mean names; however, his father finds out and tells him a story about two dogs that live inside every person--a good one and a bad one.

After his father loses his job and sells his beloved pocket watch to support the family, Joey finds a way to recover the timepiece.

A translation of nineteenth-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel in which the four sons of Fyodor Karamazov, a man of immoral character, must contend with a criminal investigation and with their own inner questions about justice and the existence of God after they are involved in their father's murder.

In hopes of graduating, Steve York agrees to complete a hundred-page writing assignment which helps him to sort out his relationship with his famous astronaut father and the events that changed him from promising student to troubled teen.

When his stepfather conspires to keep thirteen-year-old Peter at a mental institution, Peter begins to piece together secrets about his past with the help of his younger brother's strangely prophetic dreams.

Zachary's dad lets him down on the day of a very important hockey game.

In ancient Egypt, the gifted young son of a sculptor is taken into slavery when he attempts to save his father's life, and is himself almost killed before his exceptional talent leads Pharaoh to name him Royal Sculptor.

Chris Flynn starts to work for his father's company and discovers something troublesome in the floorboards of the house he is helping to remodel; and his father, Thomas, who is still adjusting to the fact that his son is grown and working, worries when Chris does not show up to work one morning.