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82) Avocado magic
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Both small and full of life, Ellie and a new avocado plant grow up together.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Gus Lobel has been one of the best scouts in baseball for decades, but, despite his efforts to hide it, age is starting to catch up with him. Nevertheless, Gus-who can tell a pitch just by the crack of the bat-refuses to be benched for what may be the final innings of his career. The one person who might be able to help is also the one person Gus would never ask: his daughter, Mickie, an associate at a high-powered Atlanta law firm.
Author
Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 1
Language
English
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Description
The explosion of racial hate and violence in a small Alabama town is viewed by a young girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
87) Water balloon
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
With her best friends pulling away from her, her newly-separated parents deciding she should spend the summer at her father's new home, and a babysitting job she does not want, Marley's life is already as precarious as an overfull water balloon when a cute boy enters the picture.
Pub. Date
[1939]
Language
English
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Description
This adaption of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's novel stars Shirley Temple as Sara Crewe, a kindhearted rich girl left penniless after her father is reported dead in battle. She is forced to work as a maid under the harshest of conditions but continues to search for the truth about her father's disappearance. The New York Times critic Janet Maslin, in 1983, described the film as culminating in "a happy ending sure to make even grown-up...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A heartwarming picture book with Spanish words woven in, about a father helping his daughter adjust when they temporarily have to move in with extended family. Perfect for fans of My Papi Has a Motorcycle and Where Are You From. When Maribel's family has to move in with Tía Carmen because Papi lost his job, Maribel and her sister feel unsettled. It’s not always easy sharing a room or being in a house full of loud cousins, but Papi reminds the girls...
90) About Schmidt
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Warren Schmidt is about tasting the not-so-sweet slice of life. When he retired, he and his wife, Helen, had big plans - but an unexpected twist changes everything. Now all of Schmidt's attention is focused on his daughter's upcoming wedding to a loser waterbed salesman. From meeting the groom's hippie parents to sponsoring a Tanzanian foster child, Schmidt embarks on a search for answers, only to discover that life is full of trick questions.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Gardiner Amory is a New England WASP who is beginning to feel the cracks in his empire. Nixon is about to be impeached, his wife is leaving him, and his worldview is rapidly becoming outdated. His daughter, Daley, has spent the first eleven years of her life carefully negotiating her parents' conflicting worlds: the liberal, socially committed realm of her mother and the conservative, decadent, liquor-soaked life of her father. As she grows into...
Author
Series
Harriet Bean mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
When her absent-minded inventor father suddenly remembers that he has five sisters, nine-year-old Harriet Bean, who has never heard of them before, determines to find her unknown aunts so that the unfinished family portrait can be completed.
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
After their mother is murdered, two sisters are ordered to live with their estranged cowboy father.
After the death of their mother, two young girls are forced to leave their life in the city and live with their estranged father, Mac, who is a rodeo cowboy. Though hostilities and challenges arise at first, Mac is determined to give it his best shot. Just as father and daughters are beginning to bond, Aunt Gayle steps in determined to gain custody....
97) The iron king
Author
Series
Iron fey. Original series volume 1
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
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Description
When her half-brother is kidnapped, Meghan Chase, who has recently learned that she is the daughter of the summer faery king, must journey into a strange world she never imagined to face an unknown enemy and save those she loves.
98) Maggie
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A post-apocalyptic thriller set against the backdrop of a deadly epidemic. As the nation reels from a virus that turns its victims into zombies, Wade's daughter Maggie has been infected. Now, as Maggie's condition worsens, Wade will stop at nothing to protect her from the authorities seeking to kill her to eradicate the virus.
99) Surrender
Author
Series
Possession novels (Elana Johnson) volume 2
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In Freedom, where Thinkers rule and Rules should never be broken, Raine, daughter of the Director, is expected to spy on her roommate, Vi, and report back to him in case heavy brainwashing is not enough to prevent Vi from remembering the secrets he is anxious to keep hidden.
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