orphans - fiction

Companion book to the Newbery Award winner The Giver. Kira, an orphan with a twisted leg, lives in a world where the weak are cast aside. She fears for her future until hse is spared by the all-powerful Council of Guardians. Kira is a gifted weaver and is given a task that no other community member can carry out.

An army is pursuing the herd of horses, eager to force them back into captivity and hard labor.Estrella wants nothing to do with men ever again, but then she meets a boy who's been exiled from his village - a child with a mysterious ability to communicate with animals.

When Sam, who is a talented woodworker but can barely read, discovers an old newspaper clipping just before his eleventh birthday, it brings forth memories from his past. With the help of a new friend at school and the castle they are building for a school project, his questons are eventually answered.

Orphan Benjamin wishes for limitless wishes on his 11th birthday and unknowingly sets off a chain of events that disrupts the balance of wishes and curses.

After the death of the stern aunt who raised them since they were orphaned, eleven-year-old Sallie and her fifteen-year-old sister escape their self-serving guardians and begin an adventure resembling those in the dime novels, Sallie loves to read.

In her diary in 1912, thirteen-year-old Margaret Ann describes how she leaves her lonely life in a London orphange to become a companion to a wealthy American woman, sails on the Titanic, and experiences its sinking.