Midnight Hour Encores
A sixteen-year-old cellist and musical prodigy travels cross-country with her father, a product of the 1960s, to meet her mother, who abandoned her as a baby.
FIC
year: 1988
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: fathers and daughters [X], mothers and daughters, violinists, violoncellists, etc, father-daughter relationship [X], mother-daughter relationship, violoncellists
The Christopher Killer
On the payroll as an assistant to her coroner father, seventeen-year-old Cameryn Mahoney uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to catch the killer of a friend while putting herself in terrible danger.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 43
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
subjects: coroners, forensic sciences, fathers and daughters [X], mystery and detective stories, father-daughter relationship [X]
Celine
Celine's witty observations about her junior year in high school while living with her young stepmother are both funny and sad.
FIC
year: 1992
copies: 6
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720
Hate You
Nursing hatred for the father who choked her and damaged her voice as a child, seventeen-year-old Alice writes songs she feels she cannot sing and seeks to reconcile her feelings for herself and her father.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 600
subjects: fathers and daughters [X], child abuse, singing, self-acceptance, father-daughter relationship [X]
When I Was Older
A new friendship with a boy who is both attractive and intelligent helps fifteen-year-old Sophie sort out her feelings about her younger brother Erhard, who died three years earlier, her self-centered older sister, and her distant father.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: death, brothers and sisters, fathers and daughters [X], siblings, new york (n.y.), father-daughter relationship [X]
Drawing Lessons
Twelve-year-old Rory begins to lose the passion for making art that she shares with her father after she finds him kissing his female model and fears for the safety of her parents' marriage.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 650
subjects: fathers and daughters [X], artists, divorce, father-daughter relationship [X], paintings, drawings, art
The Voyage Of Patience Goodspeed
Following their mother's death in Nantucket, Captain Goodspeed brings twelve-year-old Patience and six-year-old Tad aboard his whaling ship, where a new crew member incites a mutiny and Patience puts her mathematical ability to good use.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1020
subjects: seafaring life, whaling, mutiny, fathers and daughters [X], fathers and sons, father-son relationship, father-daughter relationship [X], father-child relationship, father and child, navigation
Clovermead
Clovermead, twelve-year-old tomboy, learns that her father has been lying about the past and that the truth may be the key to ending the epic battle raging between the followers of Lord Ursus and those of Lady Moon.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: fantasy, fantasy fiction, good and evil, fathers and daughters [X], father-daughter relationship [X]
Natalie's Secret
When her mother makes her leave Manhattan to attend a summer camp in Pennsylvania, eleven-year-old Natalie tries to overcome her aversion to nature and make new friends while keeping the identity of her famous father a secret.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: camps, friendship, fathers and daughters [X], secrets, pennsylvania, father-daughter relationship [X], children's stories, bildungsromans
The Comeback Season
High school freshman Ryan Walsh, a Chicago Cubs fan, meets Nick when they both skip school on opening day, and their blossoming relationship becomes difficult for Ryan when she discovers that Nick is seriously ill and she again feels the pain of losing her father five years earlier.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 21
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1070
subjects: baseball, interpersonal relations, fathers and daughters [X], grief, family life, chicago (ill.), families, baseball stories, chicago cubs (baseball team), father-daughter relationship [X], family, father-child relationship, father and child
The Mermaid's Mirror
Lena, almost sixteen, has always felt drawn to the waters of San Francisco Bay despite the fears of her father, a former surfer, but after she glimpses a beautiful woman with a tail, nothing can keep Lena from seeking the mermaid in the dangerous waves at Magic Crescent Cove.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630
subjects: mermaids, identity (psychology), surfing, magic, father-daughter relationship [X], california, family life, fathers and daughters [X], identity
The Pirate Captain's Daughter
Upon her mother's death, fifteen-year-old Catherine puts her courage and strength to the test by disguising herself as a boy to join her father, a pirate captain, on a ship whose crew includes men who are trying to steal a treasure from him.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: pirates, seafaring life, sex role, father-daughter relationship [X], fathers and daughters [X], adventure fiction, electronic books
Flyaway
While her father is in the hospital, thirteen-year-old Isla befriends Harry, the first boy to understand her love of the outdoors, and as Harry's health fails, Isla tries to help both him and the lone swan they see, struggling to fly, on the lake outside Harry's window.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 580
subjects: sick, hospitals, swans, wildlife conservation, family life, wildlife rescue, families, fathers and daughters [X], father-daughter relationship [X]
Starglass
For all of her sixteen years, Terra has lived on a city within a spaceship that left Earth five hundred years ago seeking refuge, but as they finally approach the chosen planet, she is drawn into a secret rebellion that could change the fate of her people.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660
subjects: interplanetary voyages, insurgency, jews, father-daughter relationship [X], science fiction, fathers and daughters [X]
Just My Dad & Me
When other family members infringe on what she had hoped would be a special day with her father, a young girl imagines herself alone with fish that take on familiar appearances.
FIC
year: 1995
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 380
subjects: fathers and daughters [X], family, fishes, stories in rhyme, father-daughter relationship [X]