Friday, December 9, 2011

Family Drama : Dads

As you might remember from my Father's Day posts, I have a soft spot for awesome dads in fiction.  But they can also be confusing, frustrating, and sometime plain scary.  Here are a couple of books for our Family Drama theme this month.

Playing It Cool by Joaquin Dorfman
Sebastian Montero has always been a go-to man.  His life is comprised of a delicate system of checks and balances: I do something for you, you do something for me.  But Sebastian isn't just looking out for Number One; he's notorious for helping out just about everyone in town.
Now he's helping his friend Jeremy plan a reunion with the father he's never known.  A father who Jeremy's mother thought was dead.  Jeremy isn't sure what kind of man his father will be, so Sebastian and Jeremy will switch identities until Jeremy is certain he wants his father to be in his life.

Shouldn't be any problems, right?  Of course not.



Stuck In Neutral by Terry Trueman
Shawn McDaniel is special.  He has total recall for everything he's ever heard, from TV jingles to conversations overheard at the bus stop.  Yet he's still rated as having a 1.2 I.Q.  That's because Shawn's cerebral palsy leaves him unable to control his muscles -- not one of them -- so he can't tell his parents how much he understands, how much he loves his life.

The life that his father is planning to take away from him.

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