orphans

In 1852, a fourteen-year-old orphan and her elderly guardian, accompanied by a tough drover and his crew, take several thousand sheep from Iowa to California, returning by ship through the Panama Canal, to raise money to save the girl's home from a villainous debt collector.

Trigger John's son, an orphan, comes to Beechwood to live with the Smiths. He joins the Goosetown Gang, who proceed to disrupt the entire town.

A thirteen-year-old orphan is baffled and upset when her long-time friend Jeremy comes to spend the summer on her uncle's horse ranch and seems to ignore her. Continues the story of "The Magic of the Glits.".

Seph, an orphaned and untrained wizard who is unable to control his growing powers, is sent to a secluded boys' school in Maine where the headmaster promises to train him in magic and initiate him into his mysterious order of wizards.

Under a new government program based on the saying "It takes a village to raise a child" The Baudelaire orphans are adopted by an entire town, with disasterous results.

After running away from her fifth foster home, Holly, a twelve-year-old orphan, travels across the country, keeping a journal of her experiences and struggle to survive.

Sabina and Daphne Grimm enter the hideout of the Scarlet Hand in order to rescue their parents who had been kidnapped a year before, but their attempts are thwarted by the most famous fairy tale character in the world.

Tohru and company spend Golden Week at the Sohmas' vacation home, courtesy of Shigure. On the final day, Hatsuharu makes a surprise visit, but what other surprises has he brought along with him?.

Orphan Oliver Twist runs away from an English workhouse and falls into the hands of rogues who train him to be a pickpocket.