fathers

Defines fathers as male parents, and looks at some of the things fathers do at home, work, and play.

A young girl describes what she, her brother, and their mother do during the year that her doctor father is serving in the Army in Vietnam.

Six years after coming to live with their grandmother, James and Sammy Tillerman go in search of their long-lost father.

After the death of her father, Amy, a high school student and Roger, a college freshman, set out on a carefully planned road trip from California to Connecticut, but wind up taking many detours, forcing Amy to face her worst fears and come to terms with her grief and guilt.

Outspoken Mags decides to help her new friend Gillian, a talented violin student, reconcile with her estranged father so that he will allow her to attend a prestigious music school in England.

While trying to reconnect with her friend Tom, who has returned to the United States without leaving a forwarding address, eight-year-old Rose inadvertently discovers the identity of her adopted sister Saffy's father.

When high school sophomore Mason finds a beautiful but catatonic girl in the nursing home where his mother works, the discovery leads him to revelations about a series of disturbing human experiments that have a connection to his own life.

When his father disappears while experimenting with a black mirror that is a portal to both the past and the future, Jake encounters obstacles when he tries to use the mirror to find his father.

Twelve-year-old Olive, an only child who lives with her high-powered lawyer-mother in a ramshackle house at the beach in Australia, does not fit in at the Joanne d'Arc School for Girls, so when her best friend drops her for a more popular girl and Olive suddenly meets her own, more confident twin sister, the two of them go in search of their long-lost father.

Following the death of his father, Blue Baker starts to get picked on by the town bully and so begins writing a story about a savage child who lives in the woods. When the "savage" pays a visit to the bully, however, Blue starts to wonder if there is any real difference between himself and the savage.