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My Father's Summers: A Daughter's Memoir

4 reviews
Kathi Appelt

Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2004

Kathi Appelt's poignant collection of eloquent prose poems
The memory of our childhood is like a collection of snap shots that capture not only high points but unrelated odds and ends that are preserved for reasons we can not even suspect any more. An autobiography tries to connect all the dots and provide a smooth narrative flow, filling in gaps the way the scientists in "Jurassic Park" spliced in other genes to make a complete strand of DNA. However, ...

36 Books of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Wicked Willow III: Broken Sunrise, Blooded, King of the Dead: Lost ...
Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder (Vairous Authors), 1998

Sweet Summer: Growing Up With and Without My Dad

11 reviews
Bebe Moore Campbell

Ballantine Books, 1990

Moore Campbell's Masterpiece
Once in a great while - about as often as Halley's Comet - a book comes along which stirs the soul and rattles your heart; a book which can transcend race, gender, age, place and time. This is such a book. Moore-Campbell is a magnificent writer; her verses poetic, her theme universal. Her autobiogrophy tells the story of growing up black and young without a full-time father, and the affects it ...

The Last Magic Summer: A Season With My Son

4 reviews
Peter Gent

William Morrow & Co, 1996

A great book about dads, lads and Derek Jeter...
I cannot believe this book is out of print. I gave my copy to my brother several years ago, and went looking for a new copy today after the hated New York Yankees swept my beloved Boston Red Sox by scoring a whopping 6 runs in three games. Why? Because Peter Gent's book - which is a wonderful tale about a father and his son getting to know one another - is also a prequel to the very public and ...

The Summer of My First Pediddle
Steven Moiles

Royal Fireworks Publishing Company, 1995

The setting is eastern Illinois and Washington, D.C., during the McCarthy Era, that period in the 1950's when the beliefs and social lives of average citizens were subject to intense, microscopic scrutiny by governmental agencies. David Thatcher is a fourteen-year-old whose father, a Washington, D.C.-based Army Colonel in charge of a supplies office, has been subpoenaed to appear before Joseph McCarthy's Senate committee. The story ...

The Summer My Father Was Ten

6 reviews
Pat Brisson

Boyds Mills Press, 1999

A SIMPLE STORY WELL TOLD.
I must admit to have been rather taken back by this tale. The entire story is so close to a situation that happened to me when I was around the age of the young lad in this story, that I almost feel like it was taken from by head by the author. I too have told the story to my children and now gradchildren. In the story in this book, a young man does harm to an older man's garden, regrets it ...

36 Books of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Wicked Willow III: Broken Sunrise, Blooded, King of the Dead: Lost ...
Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder (Vairous Authors), 1998

My Summer With Molly: The Journal of a Second Generation Father

1 review
Larry L. Meyer

Calafia Pr, 1989

Read this Book!
An excellent, touching book. I laughed, cried, and related to this witty, bittersweet account of a second generation father and his first daughter.

Summer reading.(Books)(Nothing Remains the Same: Rereading and Remembering, Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir and ...
Patricia Hampl

Commonweal Foundation, 2008

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