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1) Eragon
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eragon is an orphaned farm boy whose destiny is sealed forever when a mystic stone chooses him for its keeper. This is no ordinary stone, this is the last surviving egg of the dragon race. Eragon is now the new Dragon Rider, the boy who will be a savior to the repressed peoples of the Kingdom. The Kingdom is ruled by the wicked King Galbatorix and his evil wizard Durza. Eragon, together with his mentor, Brom, the gracious dragon Saphira and the beautiful...
2) Bad manners
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Five inhabitants of The Home of the Bleeding Hearts Orphans take a blood oath to become a family. They won't let anyone break them apart. When the Fitzpatricks adopt "Mouse" and take him back to Santa Barbara, the remaining four orphans go into action to rescue their "brother."
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A new adaptation of the classic series, the film is set in 1907 on beautiful Prince Edward Island. Anne Shirley is sent there to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who wanted to adopt a boy. Anne must make her way with the Cuthberts, in school, and in Avonlea to ensure she is never sent back to the orphanage again.
4) Leap!
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.
Series
Language
English
Description
Anne leaves Green Gables and Gilbert Blythe's proposal of marriage for a teaching position. When she returns, she finds Gilbert ill with a scarlet fever and is forced to re-evaluate her true feelings for him.
"The enchanting sequel to the award-winning "Anne of Green Gables." Anne Shirley makes the transition from romantic, impetuous orphan to an outspoken, adventurous and accomplihsed young teacher. Canadian actress Megan Follows returns to her...
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Boo is an orphan who believes dreams can come true. Boo, his brother, and baby sister live with Aunt T., a giving woman who helps those in need. The week of Christmas, a man comes to their door, and Boo thinks he's an angel. Aunt T. takes him in and suddenly amazing things start happening. It'll be a Christmas they'll never forget.
9) Pan
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Peter is a mischievous twelve-year old boy with an irrepressible rebellious streak, but in the bleak London orphanage where he has lived his whole life those qualities do not exactly fly. Then one incredible night, Peter is whisked away from the orphanage and spirited off to a fantastical world of pirates, warriors and fairies called Neverland. There, he finds amazing adventures and fights life-or-death battles while trying to uncover the secret of...
Pub. Date
[2011?]
Language
English
Description
Ciel Phantomhive is the most powerful boy in all of England, but he bears the scars of unspeakable suffering. Forced to watch as his beloved parents were brutally murdered, Ciel was subsequently abducted and violently tortured. Desperate to end his suffering, the boy traded his own soul for a chance at vengeance, casting his lot with the one person on whom he could depend: Sebastian, a demon butler summoned from the very pits of hell.
12) Yomeddine
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Arabic
Description
Beshay, a man cured of leprosy, has never left the leper colony in the Egyptian desert where he has lived since childhood. Following the death of his wife, he finally decides to go in search of his roots. With his meager possessions strapped to a donkey cart, he set out. Quickly joined by Obama, the Nubian orphan he has taken under his wing, Beshay will cross Egypt and confront the world with all its sorrows, all its hardships and its moments of grace....
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Heidi: 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. Curly top: Edward Morgan, rich trustee of an orphanage, meets and is entranced with little Elizabeth and her older sister Mary. He adopts them and they come to adore Edward. As she grows older, however, Mary begins to fall in love with Edward, so Elizabeth decides to play...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Seven alone: When their parents die on the way to Oregon in 1843, seven children decide to complete the 2000-mile trek through the wilderness on their own.
Missouri traveler: Depicts a runaway orphan boy who arrives at a small rural community where he hopes to become a farmer.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Soccer dog : the movie: A couple involve their adopted son in soccer to bring him out of his shell with the help of a stray dog who becomes the star player.
Soccer dog : European cup: A newly orphaned boy meets his biological father, the captain of a struggling Scottish soccer team, and the two become involved with an escaped lab dog who has a talent for the game.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Hadassah, the young Jewish girl who becomes the Biblical Esther, Queen of Persia. Despite her position, Hadassah's life is in danger, as the state has decreed that all Jews will be put to death. Defying warnings to remain silent, however, Hadassah struggles to save her people, even as she seeks to win the heart of the king.
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