"The adventures of high-spirited Anne, which have inspired multiple TV and movie adaptations, is now available in an unabridged hardcover edition that's a perfect gift for today's young readers. When Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert ask the orphanage for a boy to help on the farm, they are surprised to receive Anne--a talkative, dreamy, red-haired, freckle-faced girl. Despite Anne's imaginative antics, her presence fills the small town of Avonlea with...

The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society. This story follows the struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society. - According to Ponyboy, there are two kinds of people in the world: greasers and socs. A soc (short for "social")...

Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead and subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. She takes up the post of governess at Thornfield Hall, falls in love with Mr. Rochester, and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage in a story that transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search for a richer life than that traditionally allowed women...

In this sequel to Anne of Green Gables, the engaging orphan, just "half-past sixteen," becomes a schoolma'am in a small village on Prince Edward Island.

After orphan Oliver Twist asks for more food, he has to flee the workhouse and ends up on the streets of London. There he meets the Artful Dodger, who leads him to Fagin and his gang of pickpockets. When a thieving mission goes wrong, Oliver narrowly avoids prison and finds himself in the care of kind Mr. Brownlow. But Fagin and the brutal Bill Sikes go in search of the young orphan, determined to drag him back.

In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property.

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. "A hardcover edition of the classic Swiss novel, in Helen B. Dole's English translation and with illustrations by William Sharp from the 1945 edition"--

When Sara Crewe is brought from India to attend Miss Minchin's boarding school, she arrives looking rather like a princess, with trunks full of the finest clothes. Yet despite having ehr own pony and carriage, private room, and personal maid, Sara is never a snob to her fellow pupils. Instead she is kind, thoughtful and generous, and soon makes many friends. But when the terrible news of her father's death and failed financial investments arrives,...

Pippi Longstocking lives in a ramshackle house with a horse on the porch, and a bag full of gold coins in the kitchen. Without any parents to tell her when to go to bed, Pippi has the perfect life- especially for a nine-year-old. Naturally the children next door are curious about their new neighbor. And they are not disappointed when they meet her. Pippi, they soon discover, isn't like other neighbors. She doesn't simply climb up trees, she climbs...

Lost at sea, the Baudelaire orphans, along with the evil Count Olaf, wash up on the shore of an island populated by an oddly placid group of inhabitants, and they try to decide whether or not they are truly safe.