fathers and daughters

One summer day, while her friends are on vacation and her father is busy, a girl is kidnapped by a villain and looks forward to an adventure, but the villain turns out to be an ordinary child cruncher, and easily outsmarted.

Living in the boiler room of the school where her father is janitor seems normal to fourth grader Martha Snapdragon, until she has experiences with an evil principal, the class bully, and a mysterious giant spoon, all reminiscent of the Arthurian legends.

A young English girl and her father take their sturdy fishing boat and join the scores of other civilian vessels crossing the English Channel in a daring attempt to rescue Allied and British troops trapped by Nazi soldiers at Dunkirk.

Still coping with her brother's death and her parents' subsequent divorce, thirteen-year-old Alex finds herself stranded on a small, deserted island in Minnesota with an injured eaglet.

When thirteen-year-old Chrissa is sent to her paternal grandmother's farm, she learns more about her absent father and some of the reasons for her distant relationship with her mother.

A father and his young daughter go up and down the aisles of a supermarket selecting groceries.

As a father tells his daughter what a seed needs to flourish, he also explains the reasons he emigrated to a new homeland.

Relates twelve-year-old Fanny's love-hate relationship with her father, a temperamental artist, who has given Fanny a new dog.

In 1912, ten-year-old Lucy Gordon determines to prove that their Tennessee Walking Horse, Clipper, is worth far more that her father's new Model-T automobile.

Talk-show host Larry King and his daughter share poignant memories of Chaia's childhood in this account of divorce and parenting told from both a child's and a father's point of view.