orphanages

Katie Davis left over Christmas break of her senior year for a short trip to Uganda. She found that she was moved by the people and their needs and wanted to help. Katie returned to Uganda to care for them and has established a ministry, Amazima, to help feed and educate them.

Presents a collection of essays that reviews the process and practice of adoption and foster care in the United States from the colonial period to the present; and contains primary documents and representations of orphans in literature and music.

Brooke, Crystal, Raven, and Butterfly know they can't take any more abuse from their foster parents, so the girls develop a plan to run away and start their lives over again in California. Along the way the girls learn they can't run from their past, because it will always be chasing them.

Set in rural Maine in the first half of the twentieth century, it tells the story of Dr. Wilbur Larch, an obstetrician and director of the orphanage in the town of St. Clouds and of his favorite orphan, Homer, who is never adopted.

Conor Grennan describes his three-month service at an orphanage in war-torn Nepal, explains his discovery that the children were actually victims of human traffickers, and discusses his efforts to reunite the children with their parents.

When Milly escapes from orphanage Mercy Hall with her friends George and Samuel, they stumble into a strange land of flesh-eating sheep and a mysterious Rainbow Cave.

Homer, a never-adopted-orphan who grows to young adulthood under the care of Dr. Wilbur Larch, an obstetrician and orphanage director in rural Maine in the early twentieth century, sets out to find his place in the world.

One day a stranger comes to claim Billy Creekmore from the Guardian Angels Home for Boys; and he embarks on a cross-country journey in search of his past, his future, and his own true self.

In a future New York where most people can fly and cats are a rarity, a nondescript resident of Hope House for the Homeless and Hopeless discovers that although she is shunned as a "leadfoot," she has the surprising ability to become invisible.

Nine-year-old Nicholas Benedict, a boy without parents and afflicted with an unfortunate nose and narcolepsy, is sent to a new orphanage where he encounters vicious bullies, selfish adults, strange circumstances, and a mystery that could change his life forever.