foundlings

Embittered by a false accusation and disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a life alone with his loom and his gold. Fate steals his gold and replaces it with a golden-haired foundling child.

Presents Henry Fielding's 1749 novel, in which Tom Jones, a bawdy young man, is believed to be the illegitimate son of a servant girl, and after he promises to tame his wild ways, Tom competes for the affection of his upper-class neighbor Sophia Western, and eventually learns his true identity.

Abandoned as a baby and raised by trolls of mixed blood, Ulla Tulin embarks on a mission to find her parents, meeting handsome Pan Soriano along the way and learning that her mother may be connected to the Omte royal family.

Continuing the search for her birth parents, Ulla Tulin learns that her father is connected to a dangerous secret society that is urgently seeking the lost Bridge to the First City.

When apprentice librarian Elisabeth is implicated in sabotage that released the library's most dangerous grimoire, she becomes entangled in a centuries-old conspiracy that could mean the end of everything.

Twelve-year-old Lexington, a foundling raised in a zoo, spends a summer cementing friendships, growing closer to the elephant that saved her life, and learning about her family and herself.

In a parallel narrative set in late nineteenth-century England, teenaged country girl Mary Finn relates the unhappy conclusion to her experiences as a young servant in an aristocratic London household while, years later, young James Nelligan describes how he comes to leave his beloved foster family to live and be educated at London's famous Foundling Hospital.

Jack Worthing creates a fictitious brother Earnest who lives in London to escape his dull country routine, but finds the lie backfiring when he falls in love.

Marie-Grace Gardner, having found a baby on the doorstep, asks her friend C?cile Rey to help her protect the child from a slave catcher and worries about rumors about a deadly fever in New Orleans.

Heart hopes to evade Dunraven's men to order to reach the Sunset Gates, which seem to be the key to finding her family and saving the unicorns.