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How To Ruin A Summer Vacation

author: Elkeles, Simone
Sixteen-year-old Amy Nelson's plans for her summer vacation must be put aside when her father--a man who has shown up rarely in her life--decides it is time to take her to Israel to meet a family she has never known.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 15
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: fathers and daughters [X], family, jews, father-daughter relationship [X], israel, families, father-child relationship

Tortilla Sun

author: Cervantes, Jennifer
While spending a summer in New Mexico with her grandmother, twelve-year-old Izzy makes new friends, learns to cook, and for the first time hears stories about her father, who died before she was born.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 620
subjects: fathers and daughters [X], grandmothers, father-daughter relationship [X], new mexico

Gorilla

author: Browne, Anthony
Neglected by her busy father, a lonely young girl receives a toy gorilla for her birthday and together they take a miraculous trip to the zoo.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 450
subjects: gorilla, fathers and daughters [X], gorillas, father-daughter relationship [X], father-child relationship, father and child

Because Your Daddy Loves You

author: Clements, Andrew
Presents a children's book for early readers that describes all the things that daddy's do such as tie shoelaces, give piggy-back rides, and read stories.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: fathers and daughters [X], beaches, father-daughter relationship [X]

Night Shift Daddy

author: Spinelli, Eileen
A father shares dinner and bedtime rituals with his daughter before going out to work the night shift.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 44
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 330
subjects: fathers and daughters [X], bedtime, stories in rhyme, father-daughter relationship [X], custodians, janitors, night work

Looking For Alibrandi

author: Marchetta, Melina
During her senior year in a Catholic school in Sydney, Australia, seventeen-year-old Josie meets and must contend with the father she has never known.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: fathers and daughters [X], catholic schools, high schools, schools, father-daughter relationship [X], sydney (n.s.w.), australia

Jaded

author: Mckayhan, Monica
Jade Morgan, who wants her parents to get back together, wrestles with her father and her boyfriend Terrence's strange behavior.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: african american youth, divorce, fathers and daughters [X], human behavior, father-daughter relationship [X]

Wildflower

author: Schraff, Anne E
Chelsea Spain, tired of her father's harsh rules, decides to take some risks with her life, but when her immature friends start egging her on more and more, she is not sure every temptation is worth it.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650

King Lear

author: Appignanesi, Richard
Shakespeare's tragedy of a royal father and his daughters is presented scene by scene in comic book format and the setting moved to the violently disputed colonial frontiers of 18th-century America.
822.3
year: 2009
copies: 5
call number/section: 822.3
lexile:
subjects: shakespeare, william, fathers and daughters [X], kings and rulers, father-daughter relationship [X]

The Finer Points Of Becoming Machine

author: Andrews, Emily
Sixteen-year-old Emma Banks seeks refuge from her horrific childhood in drugs and self-harm, but when she is finally committed to a psychiatric institution, she must decide whether to face her past or let it keep consuming her.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 830
subjects: substance abuse, suicidal behavior, family violence, fathers and daughters [X], family life, suicide, father-daughter relationship [X], father-child relationship

Where Is Gah-ning?

author: Munsch, Robert N.
Despite her father's repeated objections, Gah-ning is determined to take a trip.
FIC
year: 1994
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 420
subjects: fathers and daughters [X], shopping, balloons, kapuskasing (ont.), father-daughter relationship [X], father-child relationship, travel, father and child

The Painter

author: Catalanotto, Peter
Although her father is busy working as an artist at home, he still finds time to spend with his daughter.
FIC
year: 1999
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 30
subjects: artists, fathers and daughters [X], father-daughter relationship [X]

Before Midnight

author: Dokey, Cameron
A retelling of the tale about a girl whose father remarries and the effects that her stepmother has on the family.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: families, stepmothers, fathers and daughters [X], family problems, father-daughter relationship [X], family life

Uncle Phil's Diner

author: Pittman, Helena Clare
Ruthie and her father play games and share memories to keep warm as they walk to Uncle Phil's diner on a cold Sunday morning.
FIC
year: 1998
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: fathers and daughters [X], winter, diners (restaurants), father-daughter relationship [X]

Washington Square

author: James, Henry
Catherine Sloper, an heiress favored by neither beauty nor brilliance, finds herself torn between an attractive suitor and her adored father, who believes the young man to be a fortune hunter.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 920

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