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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, and she's only there because it was her mother's dying wish that she get to know her father. But what kind of father isn't around for sixteen years? When Lina is given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy, she begins to uncover a magical world of secret romances, art, and hidden bakeries. Soon Lina is inspired to follow in her mother's footsteps and unearth a secret that has been kept from...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Six years ago Maddie lived in Washington D.C. with her father--a Secret Service agent assigned to the President's family--and her best friend was Logan, the President's son. But after her father was wounded in an attempted kidnapping, the two of them moved to a remote cabin in Alaska and Logan never replied to her letters. Now, he has suddenly turned up on her doorstep--and while she has no intention of forgiving him for his silence, she soon realizes...
5) Impostors
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In a world that is rapidly descending into chaos, Frey and Rafi are twin sisters, but few people know of Frey's existence, because she has been raised to be her sister's body double and lethal bodyguard, while Rafi has been raised to further the family's political power--but when their father sends Frey in her sister's place as collateral in a tricky deal, Col, the son of a rival leader, gets close enough to begin to suspect something, and Frey must...
Author
Series
Ravenscliff series volume 1
Publisher
ReganBooks
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
7) Lush
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
178 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Unable to cope with her father's alcoholism, thirteen-year-old Sam corresponds with an older student, sharing her family problems and asking for advice.
8) Hunted
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Yeva knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who's ever come close to discovering them. Out in the wilderness there's no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas, or to submit to marrying a wealthy gentleman. When her father goes missing in the woods, Yeva sets her sights on one prey: the Beast he'd been obsessively tracking just before his disappearance. As Yeva hunts, she finds a cursed valley, a ruined...
9) Solo
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Seventeen-year-old Blade endeavors to resolve painful issues from his past and navigate the challenges of his former rockstar father's addictions, scathing tabloid rumors, and a protected secret that threatens his own identity.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Following her adored father's death, a teenager named Autumn Falls is forced to relocate to a new school in Florida for sophomore year. And when Autumn receives an enchanted gift: a journal that literally brings Autumn's writing to life--anything could happen. Could the journal be imbued with her dad's spirit?"--
11) The compound
Author
Language
English
Description
After his parents, two sisters, and he have spent six years in a vast underground compound built by his wealthy father to protect them from a nuclear holocaust, fifteen-year-old Eli, whose twin brother and grandmother were left behind, discovers that his father has perpetrated a monstrous hoax on them all.
12) Shatter city
Author
Series
Impostors (Scott Westerfeld) volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Assuming her twin's identity, Frey works to destroy her father. When a rebel uprising strands her in Pas, and the city comes under attack, Frey must step out of the shadows to find her missing sister and take action against her tyrant father.
13) Perfect
Author
Language
English
Description
Following the death of her father, a thirteen-year-old uses bulimia as a way to avoid her mother's and ten-year-old sister's grief, as well as her own. Isabelle Lee has a problem, and it's not just Ape Face, her sister, or group therapy for an eating disorder, or even that her father died and her mother is depressed and in denial. It's that Ashley, the most popular girl in school, is inviting Isabelle to join her at lunch and at sleepovers at her...
14) Mirror's edge
Author
Series
Impostors (Scott Westerfeld) volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Frey's return to the city of her birth isn't going to be an easy one. She and her love Col must surge on new faces and bodies in order to infiltrate Shreve by dropping from the sky and landing undetected. Frey's sister Rafi -- no longer a twin in features, but still a twin by birth -- is the wild card. Are the sisters on the same side . . . or are they playing to their own agendas? If their father is deposed from Shreve, who will take control? And...
Author
Series
The tapestry volume 1
Language
English
Description
After glimpsing a hint of his destiny in a mysterious tapestry, twelve-year-old Max McDaniels becomes a student at Rowan Academy, where he trains in "mystics and combat" in preparation for war with an ancient enemy that has been kidnapping children like him.
16) Ink & ashes
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Japanese American Claire Takata finds out that her deceased father was once a member of the yakuza, a Japanese crime syndicate, danger enters her life that could end up killing someone"--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
403 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Wulliam is about to turn 16 and take over his father's job as Riverkeep. This job, safeguarding a section of the Danék, is passed from father to son and includes fishing out bodies for burial. Then his father becomes possessed by a bodhan, and Wull's only chance to save his beloved Pappa is to harvest part of a mormorach, a gigantic mythical sea monster recently sighted in nearby waters. Helping Wull in his quest are the homunculus Tillinghast; a...
19) Orbiting Jupiter
Author
Language
English
Description
"Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he'll have a future, he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice"--
20) Get happy
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"On her birthday, Minerva, a seventeen-year-old singer/songwriter, hears from the father she has never known and her placid life is turned upside down"--
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