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The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He's also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental...
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Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Children
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Storytime @ Home: Food
Storytime @ Home: Spotlight on Mother Nature & Planet Earth
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Storytime @ Home: Food
Storytime @ Home: Spotlight on Mother Nature & Planet Earth
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"A love poem from a father to his two sons, and a tribute to the bees that pollinate the foods we love to eat."--Provided by publisher.
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Edith Wharton's A Son at the Front (1923) is a stirring rumination of family, art, and the shortcomings of possession. The story, which is set on the eve of the First World War reflects the author's own experience living in France when the "Great War" broke out. The delineation of Wartime Paris is one of great power and evocation, yet it is the immensely personal father-son relationship that is at the heart of this tragic novel.
The novel begins in...
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Set against the serene backdrop of the Russian countryside, Fathers and Sons is the story of Arcady Kirsanov, a young man who returns from college to his father's country manor with his radical friend Bazarov in tow. Behind Bazarov's chilling intellect hides a heart of compassion and kindness -- a heart that will unwittingly change the Kirsanovs' lives forever.
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Earl Marcus thought he had left the mountains of Georgia behind forever, and with them, the painful memories of a childhood spent under the fundamentalist rule of his father RJ's church--a church built on fear, penance, and the twisting, writhing mass of snakes. But then an ominous photo of RJ is delivered to Earl's home. The photograph is dated long after his father's burial, and there's no doubt that the man in the picture is very much alive.
10) My dad's job
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2003.
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Listening to his father talk about his job, a young boy imagines all the fun he must have at work every day.
12) Oh, Daddy!
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[2010]
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A young hippopotamus shows his father the right way to do things, such as getting dressed, watering the flowers, and especially giving big hugs.
14) On our way home
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2009.
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"Join Daddy and his little one on their journey home, and share their experiences along the way"--P. [4] of cover.
15) I remember papa
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[1998]
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After saving to buy a baseball glove, a young farm boy takes a memorable trip to town with his father.
16) Little boy
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2008.
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A father reflects on how the future depends upon all of the little things in his son's world, from his yellow drinking cup to a big cardboard box.
17) Henry and Ribsy
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Henry Huggins volume 3
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Henry Huggins makes a deal with his father--if Henry can keep his dog Ribsy out of trouble for a month, he can go fishing with his father.
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Back to School - Children
Disability Awareness Month - Children
Storytime @ Home: Spotlight on Mother Nature & Planet Earth
Disability Awareness Month - Children
Storytime @ Home: Spotlight on Mother Nature & Planet Earth
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When a child has a "bad speech day" at school, his father gives him a new perspective on his stuttering.
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