orphans

"Griff and Dylan are returning from a holiday with their parents, about to cross into Manhattan. And then it happens. A trailer from the lorry in front smashes into their car. Dylan and Griff's parents are killed. The boys are suddenly orphans with nowhere to go until a kind aunt and uncle give them a new home in Wales. Now Dylan and Griff have everything they need--love, a happy home and future. But Dylan is worried about Griff: whether he is OK, whether he is coping with the terrible loss. He doesn't seem to speak about it or really acknowledge it. And Dylan has something else that he needs to come to terms with too"--OCLC.

Sixteen-year-old Sophie has been frail and delicate since her premature birth, but discovers her true strength during a journey through Mexico, where the six-year-old orphan her family hopes to adopt was born, and to Guatemala, where her would-be boyfriend hopes to find his mother and plans to remain.

The history of a woman born poor, orphaned early, and who eventually rose to a position of unique influence.

Presents a manga version of Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables." Jean Valjean escapes prison and is pursued for years by officer Javert. In that time he becomes caretaker for a girl named Cosette, who becomes his world, but Javert threatens his peace and plans.

Presents a manga adaptation of the classic story by Charles Dickens.

After visiting the Machakos People's Park in Machakos, Kenya, two Kenyan orphans, Kitoo and Nigosi, get to experience the joy of playing ice hockey.

Following her mother's death in the early 1900s, thirteen-year-old Harry lives on Aunt Sarah's farm where an accident with her spirited colt leaves her a changed young woman.

Pip is a poor young orphan, living with his sister and her husband Joe, a blacksmith. His life is changed forever by two very different meetings--one with an escaped convict and one with an eccentric old lady and the beautiful girl who lives with her. But who is the mysterious person who leaves him a fortune? -- p. 4 of cover.

Anastasia, nearly eleven, is snatched from her elementary school and sent to live at a former insane asylum with two great aunts she had never met after being told that her parents died in a tragic vacuum cleaner accident.

In Victorian England, Grubb, an orphan about twelve years old, escapes his life of drudgery as a chimney sweep's apprentice and finds himself in a very strange house filled with magical objects and creatures, but soon he learns that there are dark forces seeking his new master.