orphans

The Alden children save an old woman's house, land, and all the animals in her animal shelter from greedy contractors.

Davey has been saving his money ever since his mother died so that he can leave the Seattle boardinghouse where he lives and works and go find his Uncle Walt in Alaska, and he becomes even more determined when gold is discovered in the Klondike and his stash of money disappears.

In plague-ridden 1602 England, a fifteen-year-old orphan boy becomes an apprentice actor with Shakespeare's troupe and finds out more about his parents along the way.

Orphaned British teenager Scarlett Wakefield postpones her romance with the handsome son of the school groundskeeper in order to travel to Scotland with her American sidekick, Taylor, in search of clues to the murder of a boy who dropped dead after kissing Scarlett.

Examines the history of the Children's Aid Society, the organization that sponsored the orphan train program through which an estimated 200,000 orphans found homes in the years between 1854 and 1929, and presents the stories of nine participants in the program.

The reader chooses the course of the action in a story about homeless children who were sent on trains from New York City in the early 1900s to find adoptive families in the West.

The Boxcar Children investigate a mystery about a rundown yellow house on Surprise Island and the man who disappeared from it.

In this sequel to "Anne of Green Gables, " teenage Anne Shirley becomes a schoolteacher in a small village on Prince Edward Island.