When she suspects that her father has a girlfriend, Melody and her best friend are determined to figure out who it is and why it is a secret.

The family routine is upset during Ramona's year in second grade when her father unexpectedly loses his job.

His friendship with the town odd-jobs man, Onion John, causes a conflict between Andy and his father.

When fourteen-year-old baseball player Hutch feels threatened by the arrival of a new teammate named Darryl, he tries to work through his insecurities about both Darryl and his remote and silent father, who was once a great ballplayer too.

In his continuing adventures, Twig, now sixteen years old, joins the crew of his father's sky pirate ship and embarks on a dangerous mission to collect the powerful stromphrax, a substance that purifies water and also prevents the city of Sanctaphrax

Not only can Larry the dog talk, he can also sing, but when these unusual talents come to the attention of his family, the public, and dogdom, Larry is faced with problems he never imagined.

It is 1943, and 11-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is traveling west on a train to live with her scientist father--but no one will tell her exactly where he is. When she reaches Los Alamos, New Mexico, she learns why: he's working on a top secret government

Iris opens her eyes to hard truths and the power of her voice when her father dies of AIDS in 1987-- A girl channels her grief and pain into love and activism in this heartbreaking, heart-mending novel of family, friendship, and community. Iris tries to act normal at school, going through the motions and joking around with her friends. But nothing is normal, and sometimes it feels like she’ll never laugh again. How can she, when her dad is dying...

Continues the adventures of Shade, a young bat, as he searches for his father and struggles to prevent the evil jungle bat Goth from wiping out the sun.

Raised by her grandparents, 12-year-old Lucy starts a search for her father that takes her from a prison in England to the Mediterranean coast of Spain.