orphans

"In a gambit to become the power behind the Danish and English thrones, Askeladd has taken the prince, Canute, and plunged deep into a winter storm behind enemy lines. Canute's father, King Sweyn, gives him for dead in his haste to suppress English resistance. But Askeladd's small band can't outrun the tenacious maniac Thorkell forever, and when the warriors finally clash a storm of sweat and gore ensues that will turn a boy into a man and a hostage into a ruler of men!"--Back cover.

"After the assassination of King Sweyn and the execution of Askeladd, Thorfinn lost the object of his vengeance, his sense of purpose, and his freedom. Now a broken young man, he labors far from the battlefield, clearing a forest for his slave master's farm alongside the amiable Elinar. But a sudden and brutal tragedy will shock Thorfinn out of his apathy, and force him to answer the question: 'Do I still want to live'"--Back cover.

The Aldens investigate to see if a ghost has stolen valuable statues from their grandfather's Skeleton Point mansion.

A history of the system which found homes for 200,000 orphans in New York and other states, especially in the West, from 1854 to 1930.

In 1938, three orphans--Theo, Carl, and Ian, ages ten to thirteen--lead three teachers through a portal that takes them from Dover, England, to Morocco in their quest to locate six silver boxes before the ancient prophecies therein are found by the evil Demogorgon's offspring.

When the devastation wrought by endless dust storms in 1930s Oklahoma makes orphans of Jack, his schoolmate Jane, and her brother Tony, they take the truck of a dead man and set out to find a new start.

A graphic novel adaptation of Charles Dickens's novel in which Pip, an orphan in Victorian England, learns that a mysterious benefactor has ensured that he will be educated and raised as a gentleman.

In New York City J.D. discovers Bertie, who is rich and spends his days sitting on his butt, which is the body part that makes them "cousins"--but Frankenstein's daughter has also arrived, and enlisted the help of the Werewolf and the Invisible Man, so J.D. will have to figure out a way save both Bertie and himself.

Fourteen-year-old Cecilia has always known she is the true princess of Suala, but when she and her best friend, Harper, decide to speed up her ascendancy to the throne, they find danger and many imposters who challenge her claim.

In a series of poems, eleven-year-old Lonnie writes about his life, after the death of his parents, separated from his younger sister, living in a foster home, and finding his poetic voice at school.