Thematic Reading List: National Father-Daughter Take a Walk Day- July 7
In honor of National Father-Daughter Take a Walk Day we are browsing through 14 books focused on father-daughter interactions and relationships. Includes picture and YA books.
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A Photo for Greta By: Anna Alter Greta’s father is a professional photographer who is often away from home, but when he and Greta are together they share wonderful times. Includes activities. |
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I Love You More By: Judy Cooley At bedtime, a young girl and her father compete in saying how much they love one another. |
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One Million Men and Me By: Kelly Starling Lyons With her Daddy, Nia travels by bus to Washington, D.C. on October 16, 1995, to march with a million black men to pray and be strengthened. Includes author’s note about the Million Man March. |
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Your Red Shoes By: John Hutton A young girl takes many steps in her red shoes, doing all sorts of things while spending time with her father. |
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Daddy Goes to Work By: Jabari Asim A young girl accompanies her father to his office, helping him throughout the day. |
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Watch Out for the Crocodile By: Lisa Moroni Tora and her father set out to go camping, as Tora imagines a forest filled with all sorts of wild animals and tries to convince her father that they’re real. |
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Maddie’s Monster Dad By: Scott Gibala-Broxholm Maddie loves it when her father plays scary games with her, but when he is too busy with work she turns into a “Maddie Scientist” and builds herself a monster dad that she thinks will be more fun. |
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Everyone Can Learn to Ride a Bicycle By: Christopher Raschka A father teaches his daughter all about bicycle riding, from selecting the right bike to trying again after a fall. |
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The Green Glass Sea By: Ellen Klages In 1943, eleven-year-old Dewey Kerrigan lives with her scientist father in Los Alamos, New Mexico, as he works on a top-secret government program, and befriends an aspiring artist who is a misfit just like her. |
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While You Were Out By: Judith Irvin Kuns Returning to school after the summer in which her best friend Tim died of cancer, eleven-year-old Penelope finds her life complicated by the fact that her father has become the school janitor. |
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Get Happy By: Mary Amato 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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One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies By: Sonya Sones Fifteen-year-old Ruby Milliken leaves her best friend, her boyfriend, her aunt, and her mother’s grave in Boston and reluctantly flies to Los Angeles to live with her father, a famous movie star who divorced her mother before Ruby was born. |
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Who’s Your Daddy? By: Lynda Sandoval With fathers who scare boys away, three girls decide to take matters into their own hands to change their dateless existence. |
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The Islands at the End of the World By: Austin Aslan Stranded in Honolulu when a strange cloud causes a worldwide electronics failure, sixteen-year-old Leilani and her father must make their way home to Hilo amid escalating perils, including her severe epilepsy. |