fathers and daughters

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fathers and daughters

Fun home

a family tragicomic
2007
A graphic memoir about growing up with a remote dad who managed a funeral home while hiding his homosexuality. Includes adult content.

The land of decoration

a novel
2012
Judith McPherson is bullied at school for her beliefs and does not feel like she fits in at home with her father, so she creates a world all her own.

Major Barbara

2002
A play about poverty and society, dramatized in the struggle between a wealthy man and his daughter, Barbara, who works with the Salvation Army.

Moonglass

2012
At age seven, Anna watched her mother walk into the surf and drown, but nine years later, when she moves with her father to the beach where her parents fell in love, she joins the cross-country team, makes new friends, and faces her guilt.

Entwined

2012
Confined to their dreary castle while mourning their mother's death, Princess Azalea and her eleven sisters join The Keeper, who is trapped in a magic passageway, in a nightly dance that soon becomes nightmarish.

The tempest

2003
Presents the complete text of William Shakespeare's "The Tempest," with a line-by-line translation of the play in simple language, a list of characters, and a commentary.

King Lear

2003
Presents the complete text to William Shakespeare's play "King Lear" with an easy-to-understand translation on facing pages, helping students better understand the work and its meaning.

As you like it

2004
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's "As You Like It," side-by-side with a plain English translation, and includes character profiles, and commentary.

What my father gave me

daughters speak
2010
A collection of essays in which seven daughters discuss their relationships with their fathers, both positive and negative, including one woman's account of her father's abandonment and the impact this had on her teenage years and another's struggle to watch her father on picket lines during the Great Depression.

Motorcycles, sushi & one strange book

2010
Fifteen-year-old Jessie Hatcher, forced to go to Florida with the father she thought was dead, finds that his faith, a book that seems to speak to her heart, and new friends help her get control of her ADHD and her life.

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