orphans

After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, eleven-year-old Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters Artemisia, a wild mare that her mother once rode.

After the children successfully escape Grace Field House, they face danger from the outside world and from the demons pursuing them. Emma and Ray race to lead the children to safety and get unexpected help from a mysterious girl.

After learning the truth about Grace Field House and hiding in the forest, the orphans make their way out with improved survival skills. Emma, Ray, and the others follow Minerva's message to a secret location where an even greater challenge faces them.

Emma and Ray journey to Goldy Pond but face a horde of demons in the unfamiliar forest. They must learn to fight quickly as they cannot count on the adults.

Emma and the other children run after Grace Field House is burned down. But their escape from captivity won't be easy as Mom has an army of demons at her back.

Just before the children plan to escape the orphanage, Mom cruelly breaks Emma's leg and implies that Norman will soon be fed to the demons. Emma and Ray race to save their friend, but the odds are against them. Tragedy strikes and the culmination of all their planning arrives--this is their last chance to escape.

In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves.

The Boxcar children travel to Maine, take canoes into the wilderness and live in a house exactly like the one on Surprise Island, except the Maine house is brown, not yellow. Soon they are trying to untangle the mystery of the two houses.

Talented magician Danny, who is half-Chinese, half-British, and dwarf strongman Zamora try to find the connection between the disastrous end of the circus Mysterium, where Danny's performer parents were killed, and the disappearance of his guardian aunt, who is investigating sinister gangs in Hong Kong.

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