Celebrate your father with a good read

 Chapter Books

A beautifully written, passionate, grief-stricken book about dealing with the loss of a father whom she describes at one point as her "partner in crime".

With poetic sparseness, Gilead is a meditation on fathers and their sons, and ruminates on the place of faith, grace, and love despite humankind’s fallibility.

Davy has been charged with killing two men and fled from the law, but Reuben, his father Jeremiah, and his sister Swede follow close behind. This beautiful novel about family and spirituality is touching and heartfelt.

A graphic novel by Coates’ is a story about his father as he explores the challenges and contradictions of the man himself, and the journey of two boys (Ta-Nehisi and his brother Big Bill) as they become men.

Gustav kept his diary hidden throughout his six years in the death camps--even Fritz knew nothing of it. In it he recorded his story, a tale of survival and a father-son bond which proved stronger than the machine that sought to break them both.

Picture Books