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Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty and at the mercy of a cold-hearted school mistress when her father dies, but she continues to believe in her own self worth and is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.

An illustrated edition of Frances Hodgson Burnett's children's classic about a ten-year-old girl named Mary, orphaned by a cholera outbreak, who comes to live at a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers Colin, her invalid cousin, and the mysteries of a locked garden.

David Copperfield is the story of a young man's adventures on his journey from an unhappy and impoverished childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist.

Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, who is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm.

Contains the complete text of the story of a young girl from the Swiss Alps whose life takes a dramatic turn when she must go to live in the city, leaving behind the people and the mountains she loves, with annotations providing background information on the history, geography, social customs, and the arts of the era.

An epic adventure about Mowgli, a man-cub who's been raised by a family of wolves.

Pip is a poor young orphan, living with his sister and her husband Joe, a blacksmith.

An adaptation of Dickens's story of the orphan forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.

In early nineteenth-century Yorkshire, the passionate attachment between a headstrong young girl and a foundling boy brought up by her father causes tragedy for them and many others, even in the next generation.

The story of an orphaned son of an Irish soldier in India provides a powerful look at the country of India and the strong differences that exist between East and West.

Unwanted and unloved, Pollyanna Whittier comes to her aunt's home without a warm welcome.

A seventeen-year-old orphan is sent to a posh northeastern college for women by an anonymous benefactor.

Rose Campbell, orphaned at thirteen, goes to live with her aunts Peace and Plenty while awaiting the return of her guardian, Uncle Alec, from abroad, and the lonely, sickly girl is soon swept up in the adventures of her seven lively boy cousins, and influenced by the cheerful attitude of Phebe, a young housemaid.

Pollyanna Whittier grows up, travels to Europe, and helps her Aunt Polly after Dr.