Calling Him Dad, The Summer My Father Appeared Out of Nowhere by Virginia Kamhi

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Brianna is a ten year old Latina who has just finished fourth grade. Her best friend has gone to Arizona for the summer, and she’s going to be cooped up in an L.A. apartment with THE DUMBEST sitter in the world while her mother’s at work. Brianna thinks it couldn’t possibly be worse, until she learns that the father she has never met is sending her a plane ticket to Seattle so he can take her out on his boat and get to know her. Brianna is about to embark on a twenty-eight day adventure through the San Juan Islands and up into Canada with the father who’s never been a part of her life, and she’s furious with her mother for setting this up. Will this be the worst thing that’s ever happened to her?
Not knowing your father can be super painful, especially when your best friend has just left for Arizona to visit her dad for the summer. Brianna is a ten year old Latina who is prepared to spend the most boring summer of her life with THE DUMBEST sitter in the world, when she learns that her father wants her to visit him in Seattle. He plans to take her out on his boat. Though Brianna has always wondered about him, she has secretly pretended he is like her grandfather Ramirez. Now, she will find out what he’s really like, and she’s not too sure she wants to know. What’s more, she will be staying with him for twenty-eight days, and most of this time, she will be cooped up on a boat. Yikes!
Brianna is a ten year old Latina who has just finished fourth grade. Her best friend has just left for Arizona to visit her father, and she’s prepared to spend the most boring summer of her life cooped up in an L.A. apartment with THE DUMBEST sitter in the world. She thinks things can’t possibly get any worse when the father she has never met appears out of nowhere and wants to get to know her. Brianna is less than happy. He’s sending a plane ticket to Seattle so he can take her out on a boat trip around the San Juan Islands and up into Canada. She will be staying for twenty-eight days. Now, THIS is the worst thing that’s ever happened to her.

Brianna is a ten year old Latina who has just finished fourth grade. Her best friend has gone to Arizona to visit her father for the summer, and she’s going to be cooped up in an L.A. apartment with THE DUMBEST sitter in the world while her mother’s at work. Brianna thinks it couldn’t possibly be worse, until she learns that the father she has never met is sending her a plane ticket to Seattle so he can take her out on his boat and get to know her. Brianna is about to embark on a twenty-eight day adventure through the San Juan Islands and up into Canada with the father who’s never been a part of her life, and she’s furious with her mother for setting this up. Will this be the worst thing that’s ever happened to her?