abandoned children

The Huit octuplets discover Marcia's special power--the ability to see through things--which helps when their evil neighbor calls Social Services to report that they are living alone because their parents have not returned from wherever they disappeared to.

As the Huit octuplets prepare for a St. Patrick's Day parade, Georgia discovers her powers and uncovers the substitute teacher's secret.

On New Year's Eve, the octuplets Huit--Annie, Durinda, Georgia, Jackie, Marcia, Petal, Rebecca, and Zinnia--discover that their parents are missing, and then uncover a mysterious note instructing them that each must find her power and her gift if they want to know what happened to their parents.

Lost at sea while sailing with his wealthy owners, a Yorkshire terrier washes up, nearly dead, in a village on Prince Edward Island where he is nursed back to health by a lonely widow and is befriended by a fox and an abandoned waif who is also struggling to find a home for herself somewhere.

When her mother abandons her on Whidbey Island, Washington, a fourteen-year-old girl with psychic abilities meets a Ugandan orphan with a secret.

With the arrival of August, Zinnia, the youngest of the Huit octuplets, eagerly anticipates getting her power and gift, both of which hold big surprises that are revealed to the sisters on their eighth birthday.

A young girl fights to keep her mother out of the mental ward, her home away from the bank, and herself out of the orphanage after her father abandons her and her mother in depression-era Alabama.

Raphael, one of the ferocious stone griffins sworn to guard the Cathedral, gets to fulfill his longing to perform a noble task when he assumes the care of a child abandoned at the Cathedral door, but he faces a real dilemma when the baby's mother returns.

June Cross chronicles her childhood as a mixed-race child, recounting the experiences she and her mother had living in New York, her mother's decision to send June to live with an African-American family, and the impact that decision had on June's life.

Eight-year-old Brandon Willard and his grandparents leave their farm for Florida and begin a new life with new names when his mother appears a year after abandoning him and wins custody.