In the 1870s, young Mattie Ross learns that her beloved father was gunned down by his former handyman. But even though this gutsy 14-year-old is seeking vengeance, she is smart enough to figure out she can't go alone after a...
Fathers
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Author:Portis, CharlesSummary: -
Author:Pearson, KitSummary:In 1932, after the death of their father, ten-year-old Polly and her older sister Maud must leave their home in Winnipeg and begin a new life with their grandmother on a remote island off the coast of B.C. Maud goes off to boarding...
- Author:Rosswood, EricSummary:
Jam packed with parenting tips and advice to help you build confidence and become the awesome gay dad you were meant to be.
- Author:Robinson, C. KellySummary:
Deacon Davis struggles to regain his dignity after his debilitating speech impediment provokes his forced resignation from the first African American political party. Haunted by the fact that his handicap prevents him from upholding his...
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Author:Hustvedt, SiriSummary:When Erik Davidsen and his sister, Inga, find a disturbing note from an unknown woman among their dead father's papers, they believe he may be implicated in a mysterious death. The Sorrows of an American tells the story of the...
- Author:Davies, RobertsonSummary:
The son of a wealthy industrialist enters Jungian therapy to discover why he feels that his life is at a point of crisis.
- Author:Hart, JohnSummary:
When Work Pickens finds his father murdered, the investigation pushes a repressed family history to the surface and he sees his own carefully constructed façade begin to crack. Work's troubled sister, her combative girlfriend, his gold...
- Author:Yee, PaulSummary:
When her father is lost at sea during a typhoon and her family no longer has enough to eat, Yenyee travels to Vancouver as a servant, across the ocean which she feels betrayed her.
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Author:Berry, SteveSummary:A mysterious manuscript discovered in the tomb of Charlemagne sends Cotton Malone on a perilous international quest that takes him and twin sisters with their own agenda from an ancient German cathedral to the harsh, unforgiving world...
- Author:Cramer, W. DaleSummary:
After a series of bizarre events, ironworker Mick Brannigan finds himself knee-deep in laundry--and considering a retreat to his hopelessly littered kitchen. He soon learns important lessons from unlikely sources.
- Author:Crum, ShuttaSummary:
In the small town of Baylor, Kentucky, twelve-year-old Jessie K. Bovey and her friends confront some of life's questions during their summer vacation in the late 1960s.
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Author:Guay-Poliquin, ChristianSummary:When the electricity inexplicably goes out nationwide, the mundanities of life gradually shift to the rigours of survival. In this post-apocalyptic setting, an unnamed mechanic jumps into his beat-up car and drives east, journeying 4,...
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Author:Charles, NormaSummary:In this fast-paced novel for readers ten and up, James Graham, a Canadian journalist, is kidnapped in a market in Buenaventura, Colombia, right in front of Marco, his thirteen-year-old son. When the kidnappers try to grab Marco, his...
- Author:Houde, NicoleSummary:
PORTRAITS D’ANCIENNES JEUNES FILLES, c’est l’histoire de la rencontre fortuite de trois inconnus esseulés dans les rues de Montréal. Rebelle, la jeune Josée a quitté sa famille et son village pour venir s’installer en ville avec sa...
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Author:Bunting, EveSummary:Robert and his friend Charlie are proud of their fathers, who are working on the construction of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
- Author:Campbell, Bonnie JoSummary:
Campbell's heroine is 16-year-old Margo Crane. Complicit in her father's death, Margo flees home for the Stark River. And as she follows the current, she learns the ways of the world from the eccentric characters she meets....
- Author:Ellis, SarahSummary:
Winner of the Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize and the TD CCBC Canadian Children's Literature Award. Kip is spending the summer with his grandmother and his five eccentric girl cousins, including Emily, who thinks she's a dog...
- Author:Albert, Susan WittigSummary:
China Bayles is finally on the verge of finding out the truth about her father's death. But her reservations about letting her half-brother Miles hire her husband prove all too accurate when she discovers Miles has a hidden agenda...
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Author:Barry, DaveSummary: -
Author:Slipperjack, RubySummary:A young Ojibway girl, struggling over the fact that her father has died, spends summers in the bush with her grandmother and finds her own identity and voice.
Eleven-year-old Ray feels like a misfit at school and in her family....
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