During World War II, Jeanmarie and her friends at Apple Valley Orphanage suspect their director of involvement with the black market and/or Nazi saboteurs, and, after writing to alert the FBI, they set out to prove it.
Daddy-Long-Legs (Alma Junior Classics) (Classic Youth Plays of the Broadway Stage)
by Jean Webster
Jerusha Abbott, an orphan, does not know the identity of the mysterious "Daddy-Long-Legs" who is paying her way through college. But although she is told to expect no reply to the many letters she sends him, some things are just irresistible.
After losing his family, except for his younger sister Jilly, and their home in a tragic fire, seventeen-year-old Kipp Corwin, a poor farmer, must wrestle with death itself in order to save Jilly and the woman he loves.
A young Egyptian girl, whose brother secretly taught her to read and write, accuses her uncle of stealing grain from the temple and must run away from Thebes to survive.
A gentle and deeply moving story of a young girl and her bear, told with great charm by the nation's favourite storyteller, Michael Morpugo. High in the mountains, in a tiny village, an abandoned bear cub is adopted by a lonely orphan child. Soon they are inseparable, beloved by the whole village - safe, until the arrival of a glamorous film crew who need a dancing bear...
When her parents and aunt die, May Chandler discovers that she was adopted and that she has a sister somewhere, and May is determined to find her.
Tis the Season (Main Street (Ann M. Martin), #3) (Main Street, #3)
by Ann M Martin
It's December, and Flora and Ruby's first Christmas in Camden Falls is getting close. There's snow on the ground, fairy lights are twinkling all over Main Street and someone is getting a surprise visit from Santa Claus! Everyone is feeling very festive. Everyone except Olivia, who's had some devastating news. Her family might have to move away, unless her parents can find jobs nearby. Flora, Ruby and Nikki must come up with a plan to help their friend so they can all celebrate Christmas together...
Hansen and Gracie (Twicetold Tales) (Twice Told Tales)
by Olivia Snowe
In this retelling of the classic fairytale, Hansen and Gracie are orphaned twins, but their ability to hear each other even when they are not together has made them strange and helped them when faced with a witch. Hansen and Gracie are orphaned twins, but their ability to hear each other even when they are not together has made them strange, and prevented them from being adopted--so when the evil officials from the orphanage abandon them in the woods they set out to find a home of their own.
A young victim of child abuse gradually overcomes his fears and suspicions when placed in a home with other boys.
When his mother takes in a twelve-year-old foster boy, Jarrett is forced to share his room and his friends with the new boy.