When Josh's longtime partner, Grace, dies in a tragic accident, he is left with a mess of grief and full custody of her seven-year-old son, Logan. Wanting to do right by Logan, Josh begins the process of becoming his legal guardian,...
Orphans
- Author:McKinnon, Hannah MarySummary:
- Author:Ozick, CynthiaSummary:
Ozick takes us to the outskirts of the Bronx in the 1930s, as New York fills with Europe"s ousted dreamers, turned overnight into refugees. Rose Meadows unknowingly enters this world when she answers an ambiguous want ad for an "...
- Author:Spyri, JohannaSummary:
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
- Author:Dunaway, Dan PaxtonSummary:
Briony, a prairie girl with a disfigured face, is adopted when she is nine by a childless older couple, Dagget and Moll, who appear mysteriously one day at her orphanage. They take her to their remote town of Crowsbeak in northern...
- Author:Ross, Ramon RoyalSummary:
Although twelve-year-old Harper has always liked Moon, an abused, orphaned older boy, their friendship is tested by a discovery Harper makes when Moon joins the Army in 1943.
- Author:James, EldridgeSummary:
Les membres du gang de Drygulch ont été évincés de leur cabane et ne savent pas où aller. Lorsqu’ils entendent dire que des colons recherchent des cow-boys, ils pensent que leur chance a tourné, mais il devient vite évident que tous ne...
- Author:Citra, BeckySummary:
Will Poppy has always been fascinated with writing - he thinks there's something almost... magical about it. But when his mother dies, Will finds himself stuck living with his awful aunt, unable to write a single word (despite the fact...
- Author:Dickens, CharlesSummary:
When the eccentric Miss Havisham and her beautiful niece Estella draw orphan Pip into the decayed luxury of their world, he begins to form desires above his station. An unexpected fortune from a mysterious donor grants Pip a chance at...
- Author:HEARN, LianSummary:
The sequel to "Across the Nightingale Floor" follows the separate fates of young lovers Otori Takeo and Shirakawa Kaede, as they fight for survival in a violent time of war, famine and treacherous alliances.
- Author:Gibson, HeathSummary:
“Powerful, intense, yet ultimately touching. A gripping read.” —Han Nolan, National Book Award–winning author of Dancing on the Edge A junior R.O.T.C. cadet at North Covington High, J.T. is at war—with himself, his enemies and his past...
- Author:Larsen, PattiSummary:
Ten-year-old Chloe Sutton arrives on Prince Edward Island to live with her Aunt Laverne (Larry) after the loss of her parents. Her first night in her new home, Chloe is tormented by the loss of her mother and father and hides in the...
- Author:Lowry, LoisSummary:
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
- Author:Heneghan, JamesSummary:
When a flood kills eleven-year-old Andy Flynn's mother and stepfather, the only world he has ever known is gone and he is alone. Aunt Mona, whom he has never met, takes him to live with her in Halifax, on the opposite side of the...
- Author:Slade, ArthurSummary:
A movie scream so piercing, so chilling and so powerful, it will open up another dimension and summon something beyond all imagining . . .
Far from the isolated prairie ranch where they were born, orphaned twins Isabelle and...
- Author:DeStefano, LaurenSummary:
In a future where genetic engineering has cured humanity of all diseases and defects but has also produced a virus that kills all females by age twenty and all males by the age twenty-five, teenaged Rhine escapes her forced marriage and...
- Author:Sicard, Louis-PierSummary:
Felix, pensionnaire de 16 ans, peine à comprendre ce qui lui arrive lorsque l’Abyssal, ce navire sous-marin qui est venu le chercher mystérieusement au cours de la nuit de même que 9 autres orphelins, émerge à la surface après plus d’...
- Author:Strowbridge, Nellie P.Summary:
Clarissa, eleven, has been orphaned by a disease that has kept her far from home for as long as she can remember. Despite the many inmates in Dr. Grenfell’s Children’s Home on Newfoundland’s northern tip, she lives a lonely life. She...
- Author:Jones, Diana WynneSummary:
After his grandfather dies, Andrew Hope inherits a house and surrounding land in an English village, but things become very complicated when young orphan Aidan shows up and suddenly a host of variously magical townsfolk and interlopers...
- Author:Montgomery, L M.Summary:
Emily leaves New Moon Farm to live with her stern Aunt Ruth so she can go to school in Shrewsbury, but she finds it hard to feel at home in her new surroundings
- Author:Alcott, Louisa MaySummary:
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...