Chadwick Buford is an orphan who finds a home for himself and his dog Jack in the Kentucky settlement of Kingdom Come. He has many adventures during which he discovers his true parentage, fights in the Civil War and returns to Kingdom Come. Read onli... View More

Peik is a little Norwegian orphan who goes to live with his cousin the Professor. He soon makes friends with Mariken and her cousins, the city mouse and the country mouse who take him to the movies and to ride on the street cars. Robert Lawson drew t... View More

Adelaide is an orphan girl who is such a handful she is passed from relative to relative, ending up with her mother’s best friend.

Three orphan girls vow to make a name for themselves and find their own special talents. One becomes an actress, the second a ballerina, and the third an aviatrix. Ballet Shoes was a commended runner up for the inaugural Carnegie Medal from the Libra... View More

When a ferocious storm hits their ship, young Mary and Jean become stranded on a deserted island. With them are four babies.

Orphaned Leone, goddaughter of Napoleon becomes the Emperor’s ward and goes to live at court. In Jean Rosmer’s novel, Leone helps foil a Royalist plot against Napoleon.... View More

Daniel Drew is heading west to seek his fortune when he gets caught up in the search for a gang of highway men.

Threatened with life in separate orphanages when their aunt dies, Peter and Santa run away from home to join their unknown uncle who is a circus clown.

Young Pip finds he has a patron - but who?

Ramona is a mixed-race woman of Native American and Scotch ancestry. The novel tells of her travails during the settlement of California after the Mexican American War.

Mab has been living with her aunt Sarah in Iowa. Now she is going to live with Aunt Belinda on Nantucket Island.

Pip and Nanny’s mother is an angel in heaven. A Christmas story.

Priscilla lives with her aunt in New York. When she gets a chance to live in a cabin in the woods with cousin Susan, she takes responsibility for the wild birds.

In 1831 in rural North Carolina, sixteen-year-old Martitia, newly orphaned and timid, comes to live with a large, boisterous Quaker family whose five sons delight in teasing and laughter. Read online at archive.org... View More

In this volume of the history of the Moffat family, Rufus, the youngest sets out to make the family fortune. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Wanda wears the same dress to school, but she has a hundred dresses at home in her closet.

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The four Melendys meet Mark, and then there are five.

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As Maria arrives at Moonacre Manor she catches a glimpse of the little white horse.

Maria, the mistress of Malplaquet, is ten years old and under the opression of a wicked guardian and her governess, then she discovers a settlement of Lilliputians living in Mistress Masham’s Repose on an island in the middle of her private lak... View More

A young orphan girl spends the summer with two families, hoping that one will adopt her.

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Kit Haverard discovers she is meant to be a singer.

Mimff’s parents adopt a little girl.

Trigger is on his way to be adopted ‘on approval’ but decides to do some ‘approving’ of his own first.

Emily lives with her grandfather and dreams of going to college. A novel worthy of the creator of Betsy and Tacy. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Orphaned when his trapeze artist parents are killed, Rob wants nothing more than to be a flyer. But his uncle Ted wants him to have a normal life and takes him to stay with Mrs. Fatima, who runs a boarding house for circus performers. Read online at ... View More

Kit Haverard pursues her vocation as a singer in London.

When her grandmother dies, Tamsyn is sent to London. There, she meets a strange old Wise Woman.

Freddy and his friends start a successful animal tourism business but run into trouble on a trip to the North Pole to see Santa Claus, rescuing two children on the way. This book was originally published under the title More to and Again.... View More

When Lottie arrives at summer camp, Lisa discovers she has a double and it soon becomes apparent -- a twin! This book was the basis for the movie The Parent Trap.

Tim and Ginger rescue a little girl from the sea whom they name Charlotte. When her aunt Agatha turns up there is trouble. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

A fictional account of an American Army Colonel who brings five Russian orphans home with him to America.

Two orphaned sisters are sent by their uncle to a boarding school run on the lines made infamous by Dotheboys Hall and run away as soon as they can.

Two orphans in northern Russia go cranberry-picking in a dangerous bog.

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Kenneth Grahame’s second volume of memories of childhood includes his story

The Reluctant Dragon. The illustrations are new, not reprints of the 1930 edition and were never used in any British edition.

This second set of illustrations to Kenneth Grahame’s memories of childhood done by Ernest H. Shepard was only published in America. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

In an old house in Paris
That was covered in vines
Lived twelve little girls …
The smallest one was Madeline.

Mimff and his family help a Hungarian refugee boy find his mother.

A Guatemalan boy of Indian descent must decide on his future career.

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Diamond is befriended by the North Wind who takes him on magical journeys.

When Pepito the Spanish ambassador’s son moves in next door he disrupts the lives of the orphelines. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Orphaned and maimed, Freckles' bitterness about his fate is lessened when he is hired to guard a stretch of lumber in the wild Limberlost and, after meeting the beautiful "Swamp Angel", he determines to find out about his past. Read online at ar... View More

Brigette gets left behind in the cemetery when the orphanage is on an outing and meets the wife of the Dauphin. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Whitey is a polar bear who is tamed by a ship’s crew and doesn’t want to go back to the rough life of the arctic -- so he heads for Florida.

A homeless man meets a family of three children, their mother and their dog camping on his spot under a bridge over the Seine and ends up adopting them all. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Pepito and Madeline join a gypsy circus.

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Mrs. Coverlet is called away to care for her daughter and the three Persever children are left in charge of themselves as their father is in New Zealand.

When Josine finds a baby boy in the bread basket, the orphelines do not want to give him up to the boys’ orphanage. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Pepito persuades Madeline to run away with a gypsy circus.

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Willie sets out to seek his fortune with his watch, his feather cap, a silver whistle and a feather bag. Along his journey he learns the answers to the nine questions which will allow him to find his father and assume his rightful place in the kingdo... View More

Three children are invited to spend the summer at Green Knowe - they must be able to swim - and explore the river. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Edie wants to be included in her older siblings plans, but ends up making her own adventures. The family’s summer by the shore comes to a climax with a hurricane - and it isn’t Edie. Read online at archive.org.... View More

The Toad is not at all pleased when Miss Eva Penalty takes over for Mrs. Coverlet, and he intends to do something about it.

Mark Wilkins decides to see if he can make his father’s ‘folly’ into a money-making business by building a ski run. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Orphaned Joanne Mitchell is sent to stay with an aunt and uncle near the outback in Queensland. Finding no one home when she gets there, she decides to run away, pretend she is a boy, and find a job and place to live.

When they see the golden penny, all the Chinese merchants are eager to give Moon Blossom whatever she needs, and give her mother a new junk. But what is the golden penny? Read online at archive.org.... View More

Orphaned girl, Angel Thorne goes on a voyage by clipper ship from New York to Barbados with an exciting winter spent there not only restore herself to complete health but to also give her new friends and her own special place. Read online at Internet... View More

A crippled newboy in the early 1800’s finds his reward in heaven for a life of sacrifice.

Libby and her mother move to Vermont from Illinois and start life over on Shrewsbury mountain. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Orphaned Jessamy slips back in time to 1914 and gets caught up in a mystery.

Kit Haverard discovers that she is meant to sing.

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Kit Haverard pursues her vocation as a singer in London.

Lucy Brown is befriended by Mr. Grimes.

Mother is dead, father is off to Antarctica on a scientific expedition, the aunt who was going to look after them during the long vacation has just telegraphed she is laid up in hospital. The children decide to go stay at their old sea island cottage... View More

When Abby learns she is adopted, she asks her parents if they can adopt a brother.

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Be careful what you wish for.

Tom and Pamela live with their grandmother who suggests they feed the hedgehogs, but they discover the milk is being drunk by phantom kittens. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Orphaned Sarah comes to Te Waitere, an isolated New Zealand sheep station, and finds a home.

Abandoned by their mother, four children begin a search for a home and an identity.

Mary is orphaned and sent home from India to her uncle’s estate. When she discovers Colin, their two tempers flare until they discover the garden and work with Dickon to bring it back to life. Read online at archive.org.... View More

The son of a poor coachman is swept away by a radiant, maternal spirit with long, flowing hair.

The baby did not have a mommy so he set out one day to find one. And then he needed a daddy so they both set out to find one. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Adapted from the Broadway musical, this book tells the story of Nellie and Emile, Joe and Liat.

A compendium of all things Madeline from Madeline to Madeline’s Christmas.... View More

Includes Madeline in America, The Count and the Cobbler: A Bemelmans Christmas Memory and Sunshine. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Orphaned by the death of their parents and bereft by the sudden death of their older brother Tom, nine-year-old Frances and three-year-old Harry are comforted by Tom's ghost, who helps them in difficult situations at home with their aunt and uncle an... View More

A young orphan girl spends the summer with two families, hoping that one will adopt her.

Bill Crane has just graduated from high school when he and his friend Ducky Davis discover a Caterpillar D2 in a Maine Pond. Soon Bill has salvaged the machine and started a career as a contractor.

Sixteen-year-old Jed Starbuck of Nantucket joins the crew of “The True Patriot” to fight the British at sea during the Revolutionary War.

Daniel Drew is heading west to seek his fortune when he gets caught up in the search for a gang of highway men.

This is the first volume in the reprinting of the complete Little Orphan Annie comic strip and includes the daily strips from 1924-1927 as well as a few atypical Sunday strips that advance the plot.