"We find ourselves with a novel that was ahead of its time, both in the narrative and the theme, a work that transcends romanticism to enter autobiographical and ideological territories. The character of Jane Eyre is the portrait of a woman who fights to be recognized as valuable as anyone else. This message is now more valid than ever."--Provided by publisher.

Skif, an orphan who is forced to sleep on the kitchen floor of his uncle's inn, has learned how to sneak into the castles of the upper class by dressing as a page so that he can steal enough food and drink to survive, but when he meets Deek, he decides to join his gang of pickpockets and start earning his living on the streets.

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. Peter is whisked away from the orphanage and spirited off to a fantastical world of pirates, warriors and fairies called Neverland, where he finds amazing adventures and fights life-or-death battles while trying to uncover the secret of his mother, who left him...

In the aftermath of World War I, two orphaned friends set off in a narrowboat from England as each hopes to find a missing part of themselves in France.

"An orphaned brother and sister ... must fend for themselves on a remote fishing outpost in the late 1800s"--

Tale of two cities: A doctor, unjustly imprisoned in Paris before the French Revolution, is rescued and reunited with his daughter in London. She is loved by two men: she marries one and the other saves her husband from the guillotine. Great expectations: The orphaned Pip is serving as a blackmith's apprentice when an unknown benefactor supplies the means for him to be educated in London as a gentleman of "great expectations."

In the aftermath of the World War II bombings of Japan, two orphans try to survive on their own.

The borrowers: The peach and quiet of rural life is turned topsy-turvy for everyone when a boy visiting from the city discovers a family of tiny people living beneath the floorboards of a Victorian country home! Little Lord Fauntleroy: An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust. Where the red fern grows: Where the Red Fern Grows is the heartwarming...

In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester.