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Author
Series
Boxcar children mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Whitman
Pub. Date
c1977
Language
English
Description
Four orphans, two boys and two girls, set up housekeeping in an old boxcar.
4) Mandy
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
English
Description
Lonely for a place of her own, a ten-year-old orphan creates a secret home in a deserted cottage.
5) Crystal
Author
Series
(Virginia C.).Orphans volume 02
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
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.
10) Hope
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
In 1851 orphans Hope and John are placed in a community of Shakers, where they encounter a way of life that is strange yet comfortable.
11) The BFG
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1982
Language
English
Description
Kidsnatched from her orphange by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
12) The bird house
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
An orphan girl finds an unexpected home when she stops to admire the mystery and magic of the birds flocking around an old woman's house.
13) Gib rides home
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Despite the harsh treatment he has endured at the Lovell House orphanage, ten-year-old Gib Whittaker manages to maintain his hopeful outlook when he is "farmed out" to help with the horses of a wealthy banker in 1908.
14) Angel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
From New York and Hollywood to France, a family of four friends are compelled to reevaluate their lives and strengthen their commitments.
16) Meet the Austins
Author
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
1981, c1960
Language
English
Description
The warm, happy life of the Austin family is disturbed by a spoiled, sullen girl who has been orphaned by the sudden death of her father.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
19) Up a road slowly
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
1984, c1966
Language
English
Description
A seven-year-old orphan goes to live with her aunt, where she learns new values as she grows to young womanhood.
Author
Series
Unicorn's secret volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Heart hopes to use her mysterious silver bracelet to find a safe place to hide her beloved unicorn, Moonsilver, from Lord Dunraven's hunters.
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