BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE
by Kate DiCamillo
Candlewick;ISBN: 0763607762;$15.99;2000

In this warm, straightforward novel about the redemptive power of friendship and memory, 10-year-old India Opal Buloni adopts a large stray dog whose grinning affability helps her reach out to other people in her new town.

Suggested for ages 8 - 12
Subjects: Dogs | Fathers and daughters | Florida | Friendship | Newbery Honor

BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE (AUDIO)
by Kate DiCamillo
narrated by Cherry Jones
Listening Library;ISBN: 0807261866;$18;2001

Jones’s narration of this delightful story about a 10-year-old’s discovery of friendship in a new town is at once buoyant and relaxed and brings each unusual character to life.

Suggested for ages 9 - 12
Subjects: Dogs | Fathers and daughters | Friendship | Newbery Honor

BEIGE
by Cecil Castellucci
Candlewick;ISBN: 9780763630669;$16.99;2007

Canadian Katy hates spending summer in Los Angeles with "Rat," her estranged drummer Dad. Children of Rat's friends find Katy uninteresting but help her uncover her own hippie heritage as well as her father's punk rock fame.

Suggested for ages 14 - 18
Subjects: Fathers and daughters

BUTTONS
by Brock Cole
Farrar, Straus & Giroux;ISBN: 0374310017;$16;2000

Three dutiful yet feckless daughters set out to recover buttons to hold up their dear father's britches in an engaging romp full of enough traditional storytelling magic, humor, adventure and romance to delight both young and old.

Suggested for ages 6 - 9
Subjects: Fairy Tales | Fathers and daughters

FARAWAY HOME
by Jane Kurtz
illustrated by E.B. Lewis
Harcourt Brace;ISBN: 0152000364;$16;2000

Evocative, realistic watercolor paintings join a lyrical text in this story of family ties, memory, longing and the meaning of home as Desta and her father discuss his impending journey to visit family in Ethiopia.

Suggested for ages 5 - 8
Subjects: Ethiopia | Fathers and daughters | Immigration | Separation

I MEANT TO TELL YOU
by James Stevenson
Greenwillow;ISBN: 0688141773;$15;1996

Deceptively simple watercolor paintings draw the reader into a father's loving remembrance of ordinary events made special through sharing with his small daughter.

Suggested for ages 5 - 7
Subjects: Fathers and daughters

MANY STONES
by Carolyn Coman
Front Street;ISBN: 1886910553;$15.95;2000

In this wrenching exploration of an older sister's death, younger daughter Berry visits South Africa with her estranged father and confronts not only the devastation wreaked by political apartheid but also the tragedies within a family that create aparthed of the heart.

Suggested for ages 12 - 16
Subjects: Fathers and daughters | Grief | Sisters | South Africa