A young English boy, orphaned in a foreign land and terrorized for his political belief, turns to boxing. As he grows up fighting with his fists and leading with his heart, he takes on the system and the social injustices around him--finding that one person really can make a difference.

When thirteen-year-old Eddie receives aChristmas sweater instead of the new bicycle he so desparately wanted, he is quite disappointed. After a tragic car accident kills his mother and Eddie is sent to live with relatives, the sweater is all Eddie has to remind him of his mother. Eddie turns to his next door neighbor to teach him the true meaning of a gift.

Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant) who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts a plan with him to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.

Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in a state-run youth farm. In a random act of kindness, the town hairdresser agrees to foster him on weekends.

Believing that she has been sent to Los Angeles by her librarian friend, Lucy Logan, to stop an evil plot by the wealthy Primo Cell, Molly Moon and her friend Roger, orphans with unusual hypnotic powers, find themselves in danger from an unsuspected source.

A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.

After his family dies of consumption in 1849, twelve-year-old Lucas becomes a doctor's apprentice.

Living with his grandfather on an island off British Columbia, orphaned ten-year-old Daniel feels deep loneliness until the night he meets a mermaid whose identity he tries to learn.

An orphan girl discovers that she shares her grandfather's gift for finding things when their very clever pig disappears.

After the disappearance of the uncle who had been his guardian, teenager Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work as a spy and tries to stop a billionaire from controlling the world's computers. Includes special features.