fathers

After Simone's father dies, Simone examines how her mother, brothers, neighbors, and community deal with his death, not realizing she is avoiding her own grief.

A young girl describes her father's flamboyant taste in clothes--and all the other things that make him special.

David Brown works for the Navy on a top-secret project dealing with trained sharks, and although he plans to forget work while on vacation with his children, the evil Mr. Gall has other plans.

After the publication of journalist Russert's book about his father, he received thousands of letters from people who wanted to tell him about their own fathers, ordinary men who were remembered and cherished for some of their best moments-of advice, tenderness, strength, honor, discipline, and occasional eccentricity. Most of these daughters and sons were eager to express the gratitude they had carried with them through the years. Others wanted to share lessons and memories and, most important, pass them down to their own children. This book is for all fathers, young or old, who can learn from the men in these pages how to get it right, and to understand that sometimes it is the little gestures that can make the big difference for your child.--From publisher description.

A memoir in which the author tells about her experiences growing up in Ohio with a tomboy mother and a brusque, distant father who, over the course of her teen years, became a loving, transgendered woman.

When her father becomes clinically depressed, fifteen-year-old Zoe worries that his illness will engulf the entire family.

Presents a short children's book for early readers that describes the many reasons why a young child loves his dad.

The lives of two young people, one in Ohio and one in another dimension, intersect as they struggle to hold their single-parent families together and to explain the behavioral changes they see in their fathers.

Jessie, a young girl living in the Oklahoma dust bowl during the Depression, tries to tame a wild dog and help her father recover from a nervous breakdown.

At Harlem's Langston Hughes Middle School, eleven-year-old Elijah "Jumper" Breeze and his friends compete against Nia and her girlfriends on the basketball court, in a video dance tournament, and for a student council seat, and, meanwhile, several of the students face issues with their fathers.