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Father-son relationship

Born to Rock

Gordon Korman

High school senior Leo Caraway, a conservative Republican, learns that his biological father is a punk rock legend.

Breathing Underwater

Alex Flinn

Sent to counseling for hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered to keep a journal, sixteen-year-old Nick recounts his relationship with Caitlin, examines his controlling behavior and anger, and de

Norman Tuttle On the Last Frontier

Tom Bodett

Episodes in the life of Alaskan teenager, Norman Tuttle, as he grows from ages thirteen to fifteen, falls in love for the first time, and deepens his relationship with his father.

It Ain't All for Nothin'

Walter Dean Myers

A young African-American boy must decide whether to go along with his father, who is a thief, or reject his father's way of life and risk losing him.

Amaryllis

Craig Crist-Evans

Jimmy and his older brother Frank share a love of surfing and their problems with a drunken father, until Frank turns eighteen and goes to Vietnam.

Forbidden City

William Bell

Seventeen-year-old Alex accompanies his journalist father on a trip to China in the spring of 1989.

Peace Like a River

Leif Enger

This is a story of eleven year old Reuben Land, an asthmatic boy in the Midwest who has a reason to believe in miracles.

Seek

Paul Fleischman

Rob becomes obsessed with searching the airwaves for his long-gone father, a radio announcer.

Ironman

Chris Crutcher

While training for a triathlon, seventeen-year-old Bo attends an anger management group at school which leads him to examine his relationship with his father.

After the First Death

Robert Cormier

Events of the hijacking of a bus of children by terrorists seeking the return of their homeland are described from the perspectives of a hostage, a terrorist, an Army general involved in the rescue op

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