orphanages

In 1940, when Delphi Keep is taken over by the Royal Navy as a communications outpost, Ian, Theo, and Carl dread being evacuated to the Earl's winter residence where they will no longer be protected, but are even more concerned about deciphering the third prophecy and identifying the Secret Keeper.

Examines the life and accomplishments of Cordelia Harvey, a Wisconsin woman who dedicated herself to helping soldiers from her home state during the Civil War by visiting military hospitals, lobbying the governor for supplies, asking President Lincoln to build a soldier's home hospital in Wisconsin, and starting an orphanage for children of fallen soldiers.

The story of the comic strip character Little Orphan Annie, who is adopted by billionaire "Daddy" Warbucks.

Margaret is sent to the Hopeton Orphanage, run by the cruel Miss Switch. Margaret can hear things that other people cannot. One day, she hears tiny voices coming from a thorny tree on the orphanage ground, and discovers a community of moths. Together, Margaret and the moths prepare a plan to end Miss Switch's resign of terror.

Michael, an enforcer for a New York organized crime family who fled the Iron Mountain Home for Boys after taking the blame for the murder of another orphan, falls in love with Elena and wishes he can start a new life and build a family with her, but the past and brother he left behind, as well as the vengeful son of the mob boss for whom he works, threaten his chance at happiness and he must confront them in order to have a future with Elena.

As a way of coping with the harsh discipline of the Mount Kildare Orphanage in St. John's, Newfoundland, a group of boys found a club and decide to train for the town's marathon.

Dr. Chi-Cheng Huang recounts the experiences he had while trying to help the troubled Bolivian street children who have been shut out of society and forced to take refuge in sewers and back alleys.

The Galactic Expansion Home for Lost Children, otherwise known in Ravens Pass as the Old Orphanage, is actually full of alien children ready to take over the planet, but at least one of them may actually be a human spy.

Set in rural Maine in the first half of this century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch--obstetrician and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Clouds. It is also the story of his favorite orphan, Homer, who is never adopted.

Twelve-year-old William Eng, a Chinese American boy, has lived at a Seattle orphanage since his mother's death five years earlier, but after a field-trip to the movies he becomes convinced that the actress Willow Frost is really his mother, Liu Song, and he sets out with his friend Charlotte to find Willow and prove that his mother is still alive.