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3) Anansi boys
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
One of fiction's most audaciously original talents, Neil Gaiman now gives us a mythology for a modern age -- complete with dark prophecy, family dysfunction, mystical deceptions, and killer birds. Not to mention a lime. Anansi Boys God is dead. Meet the kids. When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie "Fat Charlie." Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy can't shake that name, one of the many embarrassing "gifts"...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1200L
Language
English
Description
"From the living legend and award-winning author of Hatchet comes a laugh-out-loud middle-grade romp about a boy, his free-thinking dad, and the puppy-training pamphlet that turns their summer upside down"--
6) Handling sin
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This startlingly funny and poignant novel will enchant anyone who has loved and longed for the journey.On the Ides of March, our hero, Raleigh Whittier Hayes (forgetful husband, baffled father, prosperous insurance agent and leading citizen of Thermopylae, North Carolina), learns that his father has discharged himself from the hospital, taken all his money out of the bank and, with a young black female mental patient, vanished in a yellow Cadillac...
8) Yup day
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Baby convinces Daddy to say 'yup' to everything for a day. What's the worst that could happen?"--
9) Squirm
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
"This summer, Billy will fly across the country, hike a mountain, float a river, dodge a grizzly bear, shoot down a spy drone, save a neighbor's cat, save an endangered panther, and then try to save his own father. Carl Hiaasen tells a wickedly funny, slightly twisted tale about families, figuring out what's really important, and knowing when (and when not) to let things go."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of Hamlet is not usually thought of as one meant for laughter. But Matt Haig's able retelling of the tale in The Dead Fathers Club will make you laugh, though it might also evoke a tear. Eleven-year-old Philip Noble is at his father's funeral when who should appear but his father's ghost, who wastes no time in telling Philip that his Uncle Alan, an auto mechanic, tampered with his car, causing the accident that killed him. He warns Philip...
11) Memorial
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Language
English
Description
"A funny and profound story about family in all its strange forms, joyful and hard-won vulnerability, becoming who you're supposed to be, and the limits of love. Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston. Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant and Benson's a Black day care teacher, and they've been together for a few years -- good years -- but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex,...
12) Eggasaurus
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
AD 640L
Language
English
Description
"In this story told entirely in letters, Maximus orders a dinosaur egg through the mail, and every time he tries to send it back or refuse additional offers from Eggasaurus Inc., he is in more trouble"--
13) Gump & Co
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The job-hunting adventures of an unemployed widower with a daughter to support. He is Forrest Gump whose adventures range from selling encyclopedias to discovering New Coke, to the Gulf War during which he captures Saddam Hussein.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Retired bus driver and recent widower Dermot Lynch grabs his bags from the bus's dusty undercarriage and begins to climb the hill to his son's house. It is Dermot's first time in Spain and the first time he's been out of Birmingham in many years. When he finally arrives at the gates of the crumbling development, Dermot learns that Eamonn, only one of a handful of settlers in the half-finished ghost town of Lomaverde, has fallen prey to an alluring...
16) Henry and Ribsy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
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. Ribsy does his best to make Henry lose the deal.
17) Angelmaker
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Avoiding the lifestyle of his late gangster father by working as a clock repairman, Joe Spork fixes an unusual device that turns out to be a former secret agent's doomsday machine, and incurs the wrath of the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Danny's life is falling apart: he's been fired from his job, is behind on rent, and has become a single father to eleven-year-old Will-- who hasn't spoken since the death of his mother a year earlier. Danny needs money to appease his nasty landlord. After observing local street performers, Danny impulsively buys a panda costume to work as a dancing bear. While performing one day, Danny encounters his son in the park. Will opens up speaking for the...
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