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Series
Shirley Temple volume 3
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
An orphan adopted by a kind hotel manager who rents rooms to down-on-their-luck entertainers lives happily enough until the owner of the hotel complains about the noise her showbiz friends make and threatens to close the hotel and send her back to the orphanage.
3) Heidi
Series
Shirley Temple volume 1
Language
English
Description
When her aunt tires of caring for her, orphan Heidi goes to live in the Alps with her gruff grandfather, who comes to adore her. Eventually placed with another family, Heidi fights to join her grandfather again.
Language
English
Description
Jean Valjean is paroled after serving 19 years in prison for stealing some bread. He tries to steal silverware, but is set straight by a bishop. Nine years later, Valjean is now a wealthy industrialist and mayor. He eventually befriends Fantine, a single mother turned prostitute and risks all when he helps her after she's nearly arrested by police officer Javert. Javert was a guard at the prison Valjean was in and is suspicious that the mayor and...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Jean Valjean is paroled after serving 19 years in prison for stealing some bread. He tries to steal silverware, but is set straight by a bishop. Nine years later, Valjean is now a wealthy industrialist and mayor. He eventually befriends Fantine, a single mother turned prostitute and risks all when he helps her after she's nearly arrested by police officer Javert. Javert was a guard at the prison Valjean was in and is suspicious that the mayor and...
Language
English
Formats
Description
The endearing story between Pete and his invisible dragon friend Elliott as they develop a special bond and share a magical friendship, with memorable characters and heartwarming songs including the 1977 Academy Award best original song nominee, 'Candle On The Water.'
7) Lili
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Orphan Lili Daurier joins a carnival and falls under the spell of its star, a suave magician. But it is the show's crippled, embittered puppeteer who truly loves Lili, a love he can express only through his puppets.
8) Annie live!
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Annie, the beloved seven-time Tony Award-winning Broadway sensation, comes to life like never before in a live musical event starring Harry Connick, Jr., Nicole Scherzinger, Tituss Burgess, Megan Hilty and Taraji P. Henson, with newcomer Celina Smith in the title role of Annie. The iconic musical follows smart and spirited little orphan Annie, whose whole life changes when larger-than-life billionaire Daddy Warbucks takes her away from an orphanage...
10) Annie
Language
English
Formats
Description
Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan. But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks, advised by his brilliant VP, Grace and Guy, makes a thinly-veiled campaign...
11) Daddy long legs
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A playboy anonymously sends a French orphan to college. They meet later when she is his niece's roommate, and fall in love.
12) Captain January
Series
Shirley Temple volume 10
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Four year old Star has been happy living with Captain January in the lighthouse since he rescued her from a shipwreck. But when the town's new truant officer tries to take her away from the captain so she can have a "proper" home, her idyllic existence falls under a cloud.
13) Pete's dragon
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Elliot, an enormous green dragon with a penchant for clumsy heroics, becomes friends with Pete, an orphan.
14) Les mis?rables
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The story of Valjean, the ex-convict who rises against all odds from galley slave to mayor, and the fanatical police inspector who dedicates his life to recapturing him.
15) Pete's dragon
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The endearing story between Pete and his invisible dragon friend Elliott as they develop a special bond and share a magical friendship, with memorable characters and heartwarming songs including the 1977 Academy Award best original song nominee, 'Candle On The Water.'
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
The General (1927): Railroad engineer Johnny Gray (Buster Keaton) is refused enlistment in the Confederate army because his civilian job is too valuable. However, Union soldiers steal his train, "The General," to provision their troops in a surprise raid on the Confederates. Now it's up to brave Johnny and the love of his life, Annabelle Lee, to recapture The General, make their way back through enemy territory, and warn the Confederates about the...
17) Pete's dragon
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The endearing story between Pete and his invisible dragon friend Elliott as they develop a special bond and share a magical friendship, with memorable characters and heartwarming songs including the 1977 Academy Award best original song nominee, 'Candle On The Water.'
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Journey to the center of the earth: A group of explorers embark on an expedition to the earth's core. Little Miss Broadway: A gifted orphan attracts the good will of a hotel manager. My friend Flicka: A rancher's son attempts to tame a semi-wild horse. Those magnificent men in their flying machines: A group of aviators vie for a huge prize in a London-to-Paris air race.
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