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Sequence of poems chronicling the events of a father's illness and death as seen through his daughters' eyes.

Chronicles the experiences Geoffrey Norman and his fifteen-year-old daughter had as they climbed the Grand Teton Mountains.

Katy, a quiet French Canadian teenager, reluctantly leaves Montr?al to spend time with her estranged father, an aging Los Angeles punk rock legend.

With her father long overdue from his journey and a lecherous merchant blackmailing her into marriage, seventeen-year-old Ai Ling becomes aware of a strange power within her as she goes in search of her parent.

Clara and her father travel to a remote region of Washington State when she notices that her boyfriend, Christian, is developing obsessive behaviors, and after arriving, Clara meets two brothers who captain a sailboat, a lighthouse keeper who is hiding something, and a friend of her father who knows the lighthouse keeper's secret.

When her mother dies, sixteen-year-old Molly moves from Indiana to California, to live with her newly discovered father, a Hollywood megastar, and his pampered teenaged daughter.

Nora, concerned that she seems to be in danger more than the average high school student, and having decided she relies too much on her guardian angel, Patch, sets out to investigate what really happened the night her father left for Portland, Maine, and never came back.

Marie, the only African American girl in the eighth grade willing to befriend her white classmate Lena, discovers that Lena's father is doing horrible things to her in private.

Slim watches over her father, a disarmingly charismatic man, as his struggle with AIDS reaches its climax.

Elaborates on the events recounted in the fairy tale, "Rumpelstiltskin," in which a strange little man helps a miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.

After her beloved Gran dies, fifteen-year-old Liv goes to California to live with the father she has never known and must adjust to his gruff ways and his life as an abalone diver, so different from her life in New York City.

Separated from her best friend in Brooklyn, thirteen-year-old Marisol spends a year with her grandmother in Panama where she secretly searches for her real father.

Cassie, growing up in the 1960s a home her mother calls their Lucky Place, tries to reconcile her feelings for her charming, drunk of a father, and her stepfather Ellis, who she adores.

In 1933 fifteen-year-old Beatty hangs around a small Texas airport waiting for visits from her pilot-father from whom she longs to learn about her deceased mother.

Sixteen-year-old Lucinda's isolation, enforced by her father's determination to shelter her from the barbarities of the twentieth century, is shattered when a visitor to her island home reveals the terrible truth about her father and his life.