by Lucy Christopher (2015)
While her father is in the hospital, thirteen-year-old Isla befriends Harry, the first boy to understand her love of the outdoors, and as Harry's health fails, Isla tries to help both him and the lone swan they see, struggling to fly, on the lake outside Harry's window.
Amy Hatvany
"Thirty-six-year-old Grace McAllister never longed for children. But when she meets Victor Hansen, a handsome, charismatic divorced restaurateur who is father to Max and Ava, Grace decides that, for the right man, she could learn to be an excellent part-time stepmom. After all, the kids live with their mother, Kelli. How hard could it be?"--Provided by publisher.
Helen Landalf
Seattle fifteen-year-old Stevie Calhoun does not realize how bad her life is until her mother leaves and Stevie must move in with annoyingly perfect Aunt Mindy for a summer, filling her days with being tutored and volunteering at a bird rehabilitation center.
Lisa Railsback
Upon learning that her deceased mother, an artist, went through a "Purple Period," ten-year-old Noonie decides to do the same, hoping that this will bring her archaeologist-father home to see her win a school art contest and that the aunt, uncle, and cousin she lives with will come to understand her just a little.
Sue Sharpe
This book explores important factors operating in the father-daughter relationship, a subject that has received relatively little attention. Sue Sharpe uses the words and experiences of daughters and fathers to draw out the complexities, contradictions and conflicts of this relationship. The research covers all stages from childhood to old age, and highlights the most consistent and important aspects that emerge from these experiences. It looks at daughters who wish to please, and fathers who withhold their approval; and at the complex range of reactions involved in the father's reaction to teenage sexuality and the effects that this might have on women later in life. A common complaint from the women in the book centres on the inability of fathers to express feelings and emotions. Fathers and Daughters poses important questions about the nature of fathering and the effects of ageing on the father/daughter relationship.