fathers and daughters

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fathers and daughters

Off to school

1995
Wezielee, the youngest child in a sharecropper's family, longs to go to school, but during harvest season Papa insists that she stay home and prepare the midday meal while he and the others work in the fields.

The tangerine tree

1995
When Papa announces that he must leave Jamaica to work in America, Ida is heartbroken until he tells her a secret.

Something good

1990
A little girl goes shopping with her father at the grocery store and she is almost sold as a doll before getting back home again.

At daddy's on Saturdays

1987
Although her parents' divorce causes her to feel anger, concern, and sadness, Katie discovers that she can keep a loving relationship with her father even though he lives apart from her.

The listening walk

1991
A little girl and her father take a quiet walk and identify the sounds around them.

Amber Brown is green with envy

2004
Fourth-grader Amber Brown must make some important decisions when her mother and Max move their wedding date up and prepare to buy a house together, while her father makes some bad choices of his own.

Ramona and her father

1977
The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.

Witch catcher

2006
Having just moved into the West Virginia home they inherited from a distant relative, twelve-year-old Jen is surprised that her father is already dating a local antiques dealer, but more surprised by what the spooky woman really wants.

Goodbye, geese

1991
A father describes the coming of winter to his little girl.

June mountain secret

1991
Jen and her father go up a mountain stream and spend the day fishing for wild rainbow trout.

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