abandoned children

In 1935 Alabama, when twelve-year-old MaryJake is abandoned by her financially-strapped parents and told to walk to the house of unknown relatives, she dresses like a boy and joins the household of an old widow before discovering secrets about her own family.

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 girl who is also struggling to find a home for herself somewhere.

Foreign correspondent Neely Tucker chronicles the experiences he and his wife had volunteering at an orphanage in Zimbabwe, describing the devastating consequences of AIDS on the population, especially children, and discusses the challenges he and his wife faced when they decided to adopt a Zimbabwean baby girl.

A fictional autobiography of conjoined twins told by Rose and Ruby Darlen, two young women who, nearing the age of thirty, are about to become history's oldest surviving twins to be joined at the head.

Afraid that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year old Lucky plans to run away.

When her mother is accused of embezzling a million dollars and vanishes, spoiled and selfish Ashley must fend for herself by finding a job and a place to live.

When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior Ruby winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten years, and learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she too has something to offer others.

In a futuristic United States devoid of wealth and material things, a teenage baker befriends a talented weaver's apprentice who holds a dark secret.

A young boy, abandoned by his parents during World War II, wanders alone from one village to another in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe.

When his alcoholic mother disappears, fifteen-year-old Laurence is determined to find her, take care of his little brother, and keep their predicament a secret, all while trying to win a luxury vacation for his mom in a radio call-in contest.