abandoned children

Foreign correspondent Neely Tucker chronicles the experiences he and his wife had while volunteering at an orphanage in Zimbabwe, and describes the devastating consequences of AIDS on the population, especially the children.

Anya Rosen moves with her family from Odessa to Shanghai in order to escape religious persecution from Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, but after Anya discovers a newborn baby abandoned in the middle of the street and her hero, Amelia Earhart, goes missing, Anya fears that there is no safe place for her family.

After their guardian dies, fifteen-year-old Lutie McFee and her nine-year-old brother decide to flee their hometown to avoid becoming wards of the state and head for Las Vegas in hopes of finding their estranged father.

Around the turn of the nineteenth century, a woman bears her brother's child, a boy. The brother tells his sister the child died of natural causes. When she discovers this is a lie she leaves to find her son and soon discovers three terrifying and elusive strangers.

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

Foster child Min Randall has never felt accepted by the families that have taken her in, and when her latest foster mother returns her to the social worker just before Christmas, Min fears her holiday will be ruined, until a kind doctor takes her home for the holiday and teaches Min about the true meaning of Christmas and love.

Ten years after the Civil War's end, twelve-year-old Addy, abandoned by her parents, is taken from the horrid town of No-Bob by schoolteacher Frank Russell and his bride, but when her father returns to claim her she must find another way to leave her O'Donnell past behind.

Growing up in a house full of women, fourteen-year-old Grayling learns to deal with death, love, and the unanswered questions raised by her widowed mother's apparent abandonment.

After her father's abandonment, Doria struggles to make a new life for herself and her mother in the projects of Paris.

Melinda Monroe, desperate for a change after the death of her husband and too many years working at the county hospital in Los Angeles, answers an ad for a nurse practitioner/midwife in the small California town of Virgin River, but she arrives to find the pictures and promises the led her to take the job were all lies, and only the discovery of an abandoned infant on the doorstep of the town's elderly doctor convinces her of the need to stay.