father-son relationship

Frank Schaeffer and his son John share the feelings they had after John enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps, using alternating voices to chronicle their experiences and conflicts during John's service.

Baseball player, Jos? Mendez, worries about his poor performance with the bat and fears disappointing his father, a former ballplayer with an outstanding batting average.

When his father returns from the war in 1865, fourteen-year-old Alby finds his beloved Pa a changed man and can only hope that they will be friends again.

When Jody, a sixth grade boy, travels back in time to when his father was his age, he is finally able to mend their fragile relationship.

A father, his friends, and his six-year-old son rebuild an old car together and drive it in races.

"While dealing with the recovery of his mentally ill father, sophomore in high school Billy volunteers at a suicide prevention line and falls for one of the incoming callers"--Provided by publisher.

The dragon Basil, now grown mighty in strength, size, and courage, looks for what is causing the chaos that plagues Avalon, while his friend, Merlin, is distracted by problems with his son, Krystallus, and vengeful Doomraga plots from within the haunted marshes.

A gap in his memory the afternoon that his best friend disappears in a redwood forest has a fifteen-year-old photographer wondering about his own role in the mystery, and whom he can turn to for help.

Feeling not as big, tough, or athletic as his father, a professional wrestler, high-schooler Jesse becomes friends with a brash young wrestler who offers to help Jesse bulk up.

In the South of England, fourteen-year-old Jay resumes contact with his father, a movie stuntman and karate instructor, after two years of estrangement to impress a girl who turns out to be the girlfriend of Jay's former best friend.