Little Rose Campbell is just getting used to living with her six aunts and seven cousins when her “progressive” uncle steps in and demands that she get out of the house and into the sunshine. Rose grows fond of her new family and the...
Orphans
- Author:Alcott, Louisa MaySummary:
- Author:Doyle, BrianSummary:
Winner of the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year Award In his first year in high school, Hubbo O'Driscoll is torn between his poor but fun friends and the shallow but rich kids. In this novel based on Great Expectations,...
- Author:Jones, Diana WynneSummary:
Although an orphan, Earwig has always enjoyed living at St. Morwald's, where she manages to make everyone do her bidding, but when she is taken in by a foster parents who are actually a witch and a demon, she has a hard time trying to...
- Author:HOROWITZ, AnthonySummary:
Reluctant MI6 agent, Alex Rider, is relaxing in France with his friend and her family. He is just trying to be a typical teenager when a chance encounter with an assassin launches him into danger. He must investigate a pop star whose...
- Author:Horowitz, AnthonySummary:
After a chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich in the South of France, teenage spy Alex Rider investigates international pop star and philanthropist Damian Cray whose new video game venture hides sinister motives involving...
- Author:Wendig, ChuckSummary:
Molly has come home for her inheritance, and if her brother Dustin won't welcome her into the family business, then she'll take her half in cash. There's just one problem: the family business is a mortuary for monsters....
- Author:Stead, Robert J.C., Querengesser, Neil, Horton, JeanSummary:
Dry Water tells the story of Donald Strand, from the time of his arrival as a ten-year-old orphan at his relatives’ Manitoba farm in 1890 to his apogee as a successful farmer. It recounts the crises he faces during a troubled marriage...
- Author:Willett, EdwardSummary:
Ariane and Wally must reforge the sword of Excalibur to defeat Merlin: but doing so may unleash something neither of them is strong enough to handle.
In the climactic fifth book of The Shards of Excalibur series, Ariane, Wally,...
- Author:Ondaatje, MichaelSummary:
California, 1970s. A man who lost his wife in childbirth is raising his two daughters, Anna and Claire, and tending his farm with the help of a young man, Coop, who he has more or less adopted. When the older Anna and Coop fall into a...
- Author:Auerbach, AnnieSummary:
Gru is a wannabe master villain who plans to steal the moon. Unfortunately for Gru, another villain named Vector wants to steal his glory. Gru adopts three orphaned girls to become secret weapons in his plot to one-up Vector. But the...
- Author:Kingsolver, BarbaraSummary:
WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE • WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION • A New York Times "Ten Best Books of 2022" • An Oprah's Book Club Selection • An Instant New York Times Bestseller • An Instant Wall Street...
- Author:St. John, LaurenSummary:
When orphaned Laura Marlin moves from a children's home to live with her uncle in Cornwall, she longs for a life of excitement just like the characters in her favourite detective novels.
A real life adventure is on hand as she is...
- Author:Dickens, CharlesSummary:
David Copperfield traces the eponymous hero from misery in the Salem House Academy and drudgery in his stepfather's business, to his escape to Dover and an eccentric aunt where he transforms his life.
- Author:Tracey, ScottSummary:
Malcolm Denton wants to be free... of the unbreakable coven bond that ties him to his siblings, of his life as a witch in the hated Moonset coven and of everything magical. His longing attracts the attention of a demonic Abyssal Prince...
- Author:Patterson, James, Sadler, AdamSummary:
As Daniel X continues to hunt for intergalactic aliens, he and his friends go to England searching for Beta, an outlaw who takes the form of fire and who killed Daniel's parents when he was two years old.
- Author:Little, JeanSummary:
Foster child Min Randall's life is not easy as she has to deal with a number of foster parents and Children's Aid, but things take a turn for the better when she finds an injured dog.
- Author:Webster, JeanSummary:
When orphan Jerusha Abbott receives word that a mysterious millionaire has decided to fund her schooling, she's ecstatic. But as her benefactor proves to be more and more elusive, requesting that she write him without inquiring as to...
- Author:Lawson, MarySummary:
In the rural farm country of northern Ontario, the lives of two families--the farming Pye family, and zoologist Kate Morrison and her three brothers--are brought together and torn apart by misunderstanding, resentment, family love, and...
- Author:Horowitz, AnthonySummary:
Alex Rider does battle with a charity broker con artist who has invested millions of dollars in a form of genetically modified corn that can release an airborne strain of virus capable of knocking out an entire country in one day.
- Author:AviSummary:
As Crispin tries to fulfill Bear's dream of moving to Iceland, he must leave Troth behind at a convent that needs a healer but, after falling in with thieves posing as musicians, he makes a new friend, Owen, and together they continue...