Dodgems
- Bernard Ashley

Published:
Price: 2.99
Age Range: Teenage
ISBN: 01403 2789 4
Publisher: Puffin Plus
In Print: No
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No
An absorbing novel about the relationship between a caring, resourceful boy and his troubled father.

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Forbidden City
- William Bell

Published: 1992
Price: 2.99
Age Range: Teenage
ISBN: 05525 2655 X
Publisher: Corgi Freeway
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No
Very powerful novel told the eyes of Alex, 17, who has gone to China with his news camera-man father and is witness to the Tianenmen Square massacre.

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Chirpy The Girl of the Sun
- Arno Bo

Published: 1997
Price: 3.99
Age Range: 10-12
ISBN: 0 7475 2529 3
Publisher: Bloomsbury
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: Yes
Chirpy is a shy little girl living alone with her father. Her mother lives far away, Chirpy doesn't know why and is afraid to ask. She meets a friend who inspires her to change her life and gain the things she and her father want most in the world.

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Never Pa`s Girl
- Robbie Bransum

Published: 1991
Price: 6.50
Age Range: Teenage
ISBN:
Publisher: Viking-Kestrel
In Print: No
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No

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Gorilla
- Anthony Browne

Published: 1983
Price: 6.99
Age Range: 0-10
ISBN: 07445 0748 0
Publisher: Walker
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No
A subtle moving story of a child's loneliness and need for affection. Winner of 1983 Emil/Kurt Maschler and Kate Greenaway awards.

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In Between Times
- Hannah Cole

Published: 1990
Price: 2.99
Age Range: 10-12
ISBN: 07745 1431 2
Publisher: Walker
In Print: No
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No
Karen lives with her dad and her grandma. Her fun loving attitude is a little too much for her childminder.

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Walk Two Moons
- Sharon Creech

Published: 1994
Price: 3.99
Age Range: 10-Teenage
ISBN: 0330330004
Publisher: Piper
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No
A girl called Salamanca living in Kentucky until the break up of her family. Her mother leaves home and her father takes her to live in Ohio. She goes on a journey with Grand and Grandad to find out why her mother left.

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Danny, The Champion of the World
- Roald Dahl

Published:
Price: 2.99
Age Range: 5-12
ISBN: 1403 2287
Publisher: Puffin
In Print: No
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No
Danny and his father live in an old gypsy caravan next to their filling station. To keep it they have to outwit their greedy rich neighbour. Now a film.

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High Hopes
- Ursula Dubosarsky

Published: 1991
Price: £2.50
Age Range: 5-12
ISBN: 01403 4380 6
Publisher: Penguin
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No
12 year old Julia who lives with her father finds herself resenting the growing relationship between her father and Anabel who gives him English lessons. Julia quickly realises that she muyst save her innocent father from this totally inappropriate woman. She has to get rid of Anabel. But will her plan succeed?

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The Summer House Loon
- Anne Fine

Published: 1995
Price: 3.50
Age Range: Teenage
ISBN: 0 7497 0184 6
Publisher: Reed International
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: Yes
Lone has spent every summer she can remember alone in the summer house. until she meets the extraordinary Ned Hump. She receives a riotous introduction to the problems of adult life - how not to cope with love, money, careers, loneliness, drink and forty uninvited guests coming to tea.

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Dodger
- Libby Gleeson

Published: 1992
Price: 2.99
Age Range: 5-10
ISBN: 01403 6063 8
Publisher: Puffin
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No
Mick's mum died a few year ago and his dad is a long-distance truck driver. He is offered a major part in the school production of Oliver and at last has a chance to prove himself good at something and reconcile a troubled past with an uncertain future.

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Ruby
- Rosa Guy

Published:
Price: £3.50
Age Range: Teenage
ISBN: 01403 2859 9
Publisher: Puffin Plus
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No
Ruby is 18 and desparately lonely, shunned hy her father and at school. Then she meets Daphne and for the first time in her life feels what it's like to be loved.

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Sam Sticks and Delilah
- Diana Hendry

Published: 1993
Price: 2.99
Age Range: 5-10
ISBN: 0744530237
Publisher: Walker Books
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No

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Your Friend, Rebecca
- Linda Hoy

Published: 1983
Price: 2.99
Age Range: Teenage
ISBN: 00993 1280 8
Publisher: Beaver
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No
This book is about a girl named Rebecca who lives with her widowed dad. Rebecca’s dad is an alcoholic and is expecting the sack because he is often in late. Rebecca, however, is very depressed and only gets enjoyment out of one thing - drama. When her drama teacher becomes ill, Rebecca finds she is not the only person who has been rejected before.

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Just Ferret
- Gene Kemp

Published: 1991
Price: 3.50
Age Range: 10-12
ISBN: 0140345892
Publisher: Puffin
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No

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Sarah, Plain and Tall
- Patricia MacLachlan

Published: 1988
Price: 2.5
Age Range: 10-Teenage
ISBN: 0140 323961
Publisher: Puffin
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: Yes
Anna and her younger brother Caleb live with their father on a farm. Anna and Caleb’s mother died when Caleb was only a baby and therefore cannot remember her, Anna however, tries her best to tell him as much about their mother as she can remember and about how much their mother and father liked to sing. Their father does not sing anymore. Then one day their father advertises for a wife and Sarah arrives. The house is once again full of song, but is she here to stay?

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The Twig Thing
- Jan Mark

Published: 1988
Price: 2.25
Age Range: 5-10
ISBN: 0140 32641 3
Publisher: Puffin
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: Yes
When Rosie and Ella went to live with their dad they knew something was missing from the house. It had lots of stairs and windows but no garden. Rosie then finds a twig, puts it in some water and places it on the window sill. The story follows the life of the twig as it grows and changes, just as the 2 girls are growing.

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The Seventeenth Swoop
- Eloise McGraw

Published:
Price: 2.50
Age Range: 10-12
ISBN: 0140 32483 6
Publisher: Puffin
In Print: No
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No
Eric and his father live together with a few possessions. It is Eric's encyclopedic knowledge that helps his wheelchair using friend Jimmy gain a coveted pair of boots.

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Ed and Me
- David McPhail

Published: 1992
Price: 7.95
Age Range: 0-10
ISBN: 02169 3166 5
Publisher: Blackie
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No
A striking book that traces the special relationship between a young girl, her father and an old pick-up truck called Ed.

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Night People
- Maggie Pearson

Published: 1997
Price: 3.99
Age Range: 10-Teenage
ISBN: 0 340 68076 8
Publisher: Hodder childrens books
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: Yes

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My Dad Takes Care of Me
- Patricia Quinlan

Published: 1992
Price: 5.95
Age Range: 0-5
ISBN: 0920 30379 X
Publisher: Annick Press/Ragged Bear
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: Yes
This is a story of a young boy who is looked after by his father while his mother is out at work. The story sees the young boy come to accept that having a father who is unemployed is nothing to be ashamed of and that his job is to look after him. Touching on the pressures of unemployment and financial insecurity, this book is particularly good for children whose parents, particularly fathers are unemployed.

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Grubbslyme
- Jacqueline Wilson

Published: 1991
Price: 2.5
Age Range: 5-12
ISBN: 04408 6231 0
Publisher: Yearling
In Print: Yes
Available to Borrow from OPFS: No
Rebecca, who lives with her father, makes friends with a huge toad in this lively fantasy.