abandoned children

The author remembers her happy youth in California in the early 1970s and how that tranquillity was destroyed by the death of her mother.

Jen Lauck chronicles the experiences she had after being separated from her brother and passed from caretaker to caretaker and discusses how those events shaped her life.

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.

Navy pilot Annie Peregrine, having received a message that her father--a con man who left her twenty years earlier--is dying, agrees to help him with one last job in exchange for information about the mother she never knew, and finds herself traveling across the country in search of a statue.

Because her mother cannot afford to keep her, Ren tries to survive along with other homeless persons who are united in their determination to care for an abandoned baby.

Abby comes home from school one day to find that someone has left a beautiful baby boy on her front porch, and while Abby's mom convinces the police to let the baby stay with them until his mother can be found, her friends in the Baby-Sitters Club decide to conduct their own investigation.

When Cathy decides to carpool from Norwalk to Greenwich, Connecticut, to study Latin in summer school, she does not expect the shocking events that occurred five years earlier to come flooding back into her relatively settled life.

When a little girl is abandoned on a ship going to Australia in 1913 and arrives with only her clothes and a book of fairy tales, she is raised by the dockmaster and his wife as their own; as a young woman, she travels to England where, over time, her own granddaughter eventually assembles the pieces of her life's puzzle.

Recounts Roger Bechan's long journey through the Oklahoma orphanage system in the 1930s and 1940s, describing the unique characters he met, his troubled childhood, his feelings of abandonment, and other related topics.