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Fathers and daughters

Saying It Out Loud

Joan Abelove

With the help of her best friend, sixteen-year-old Mindy sorts through her relationships with her solicitous mother and her detached father as she tries to come to terms with the fact that her mother

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I Hadn't Meant to Tell You This

Jacqueline Woodson

Marie, the only black girl in the eighth grade willing to befriend her white classmate Lena, discovers that Lena's father is doing horrible things to her in private.

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Earthshine

Theresa Nelson

Slim watches over her father, a disarmingly charismatic man, as his struggle with AIDS reaches its climax.

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The Catalogue of the Universe

Margaret Mahy

Determined to satisfy her curiosity about her unknown father, eighteen-year-old Angela May embarks on an emotional journey that shapes and forever alters the way she looks at herself, her unconvention

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Plain City

Virginia Hamilton

Twelve-year-old Buhlaire, a "mixed" child who feels out of place in her community, struggles to unearth her past and her family history as she gradually discovers more and more about her long-missing

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Yes, My Darling Daughters

Ralph Schoenstein

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Words By Heart

Ouida Sebestyen

A young black girl struggles to fulfill her papa's dream of a better future for their family in the southwestern town where, in 1910, they are the only blacks.

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The View Beyond My Father

Mabel Esther Allan

A fifteen-year-old discovers it is her father as well as her blindness that binds her to a narrow world.

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Ruby

V. C. Andrews

Ruby must count on the strength of her love for Paul to carry her through the madness that lies ahead of her.

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