Father-daughter relationship | Batavia High School Media Center

Tender

After her beloved Gran dies, fifteen-year-old Liv goes to California to live with the father she has never known and must adjust to his gruff ways and his life as an abalone diver, so different from h

California, Deep diving, Father-daughter relationship, Fathers and daughters, fiction

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Washington Square

Henry James

Tells the story of a shy, rich girl who rejects the courting attempts of a young suitor who wanted to marry her for her money.

Father-daughter relationship, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Washington Square (New York, N.Y.), Young women

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Mine Eyes Have Seen

Ann Rinaldi

In the summer of 1859, fifteen-year-old Annie travels to the Maryland farm where her father, John Brown, is secretly assembling his provisional army prior to their raid on the United States arsenal at

1800-1859, Abolitionists, Brown, John, Father-daughter relationship, Fathers and daughters

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Midnight Hour Encores

Bruce Brooks

A sixteen-year-old cellist and musical prodigy travels crosscountry with her father, a product of the 1960s, to meet her mother, who abandoned her as a baby.

Father-daughter relationship, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Mother-daughter relationship, Mothers and daughters

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Freaky Green Eyes

Joyce Carol Oates

Fourteen-year-old Frankie relates the events of the year leading up to her mother's mysterious disappearance and her own struggle to discover and accept the truth about her parents' relationship.

Family violence, Father-daughter relationship, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Homicide

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