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Dancing Home

author: Ada, Alma Flor
When Margie's cousin Lupe comes from Mexico to live in California with Margie's family, Lupe must adapt to America, while Margie, who thought it would be fun to have her cousin there, finds that she is embarrassed by her in school and jealous of her at home.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 960
subjects: cousins, mexican americans, family life, father-daughter relationship [X], families, fathers and daughters

King Lear

author: Shakespeare, William
King Lear foolishly disinherits his favorite daughter when she speaks out against him and splits his kingdom between his other two daughters, not realizing they are secretly plotting against him.
822.3
year: 1999
copies: 1
call number/section: 822.3
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The Life And Death Of The Mayor Of Casterbridge

author: Hardy, Thomas
Michael Henchard, an unemployed farmhand, gets drunk and sells his wife and baby daughter.
FIC
year: 1980
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1090
subjects: fathers and daughters, men, father-daughter relationship [X], england, wessex (england)

Rasputin's Daughter

author: Alexander, Robert
Maria, the young, spirited daughter of Rasputin, spends her father's final days trying to unlock the mystery of her father's involvement in the disappearance of the Russian Royal Family.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
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Looking For Palestine

author: Said, Najla
A second-generation Arab American and daughter of an outspoken Palestinian advocate describes her struggles with her identity growing up in Manhattan and the denial she felt while assimilating into different social and economic groups.
921
year: 2014
copies: 2
call number/section: 921
lexile:

I Love My Papi!

author: Inches, Alison
Dora and her Papi play baseball, go to the beach, read books, and do lots of other fun things together.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
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Evangeline Brown And The Cadillac Motel

author: Davis, Michele Ivy
Depicts the unconventional life of an eleven-year-old girl with her widowed, alcoholic father in a Florida motel.
FIC
year: 2004
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: fathers and daughters, alcoholism, hotels, motels, etc, father-daughter relationship [X], florida

Nacer Bailando

author: Ada, Alma Flor
When Margie's cousin Lupe comes from Mexico to live in California with Margie's family, Lupe must adapt to America, while Margie, who thought it would be fun to have her cousin there, finds that she is embarrassed by her in school and jealous of her at home.
463
year: 2011
copies: 4
call number/section: 463
lexile:
subjects: california, mexican americans, family life, cousins, spanish language, father-daughter relationship [X], immigrants

Glennis, Before And After

author: Calvert, Patricia
While her father serves his term in a detention center, twelve-year-old Glennis learns that "not all prisons are made out of stone, and spiders aren't the only ones who can weave webs.
FIC
year: 1999
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 900
subjects: fathers and daughters, prisoners, forgiveness, father-daughter relationship [X]

Ghost Horses

author: Hill, Pamela Smith
Sixteen-year-old Tabitha, the daughter of a preacher who believes science is Satan's work, longs to study at a university and dig for dinosaur bones, but in South Dakota at the end of the nineteenth century such ambitions are discouraged.
FIC
year: 1999
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: sex role, paleontology, fathers and daughters, fossils, south dakota, father-daughter relationship [X]

Ashleigh's Dream

author: Campbell, Joanna
After her mother's death in a riding accident, Samantha's father forbade her to ride.
FIC
year: 1993
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: horses, fathers and daughters, father-daughter relationship [X]

Tiny's Hat

author: Grifalconi, Ann
A young girl who misses her father, a traveling blues musician, lifts her own spirits by wearing his hat and singing his songs.
FIC
year: 1999
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: blues (music), fathers and daughters, african americans, father-daughter relationship [X]

Frosty's New Friends

author: Cowdrey, Richard
A father tells his child about the time that Frosty the Snowman returned, just like he promised.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: snowmen, fathers and daughters, father-daughter relationship [X], father-child relationship

Making The Run

author: Henson, Heather
Eighteen-year-old Lu is set on leaving her Kentucky home town after high school graduation, but her plans are complicated by friends and family, old grief, and new love.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 570

The Curfew

author: Ball, Jesse
William and Molly, father and daughter, live in a city ruled by fear after an uprising that took their wife and mother.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: father-daughter relationship [X], dystopias

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