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Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A mysterious fortress built on top of a gold mine is being zealously guarded by a tribe of Amazons. The tribe is ruled by Uruck and his cruel, sadistic mistress, Rena. 15 years ago, their golden temple was discovered by an explore, and he and his wife were murdered by the Amazons who were intent on protecting their secret. However, their daughter was spared and grew up in the jungle. Now she has discovered the fate of her parents and sets out to avenge...
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A young orphan named Mary is sent to live at the dark and foreboding English estate of her widowed uncle. She discovers a secret garden which was abandoned after a tragic accident. With the help of her crippled cousin Colin, and Dickon the country boy, her spirit is gradually reawakened as they bring the garden back to life.
83) The good fairy
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Young Louisa Ginglebusher is recruited from a local orphanage to become an usherette at a movie theater. Encouraged by her kindly guardian to spread her wings, Louisa decides to lead the life of a fairy tale angel & in her quest to do good she tries to redirect money from a rich playboy to a struggling lawyer.
84) A.R.C.H.I.E
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Isabel Sullivan has just moved to a small town to live with her uncle Paul who is the town's mayor. Isabel has recently lost her parents in a car accident. Feeling very alone and friendless, Isabel befriends a stray robot dog named ARCHIE. Though he looks like a normal dog, he is anything but. He can talk. He can run at blinding speed. He's got super strength and x-ray vision. Isabel and Archie become fast friends.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
When Geoff, an orphaned stable boy, discovers Drake, the world's last living dragon, he realizes that his dream of becoming a knight in shining armor can now come true. Together they face challenges that turn them into heroes, but they fail to see the hidden dangers that surround them.
88) Zarafa
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Under the cover of darkness a small boy, Maki, loosens the shackles that bind him and escapes into the desert night. Pursued by slavers across the moon-lit savanna, Maki meets Zarafa, a baby giraffe, and an orphan, just like him, as well as the nomad Hassan, Prince of the Desert. Hassan takes them to Alexandria for an audience with the Pasha of Egypt, who orders him to deliver the exotic animal as a gift to King Charles of France.
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Eighteen years after the brothers' original "mission from God, " Elwood Blues is getting out of prison and discovering that much has changed in the time he's been away. His partner, Jake is gone, his band is no longer together and the orphanage where he grew up has been demolished. Elwood soon realizes that he must embark on a whole new mission to reassemble the old band this time with the help of a soulful bartender, compete at Queen Moussette's...
Language
English
Description
It is 1945 and a grown up Anne Shirley returns to Prince Edward Island for an extended visit. She agrees to write a play for a local theatre producer in hopes that it will keep her mind off of her only son who is serving in the Armed Forces overseas. A letter is discovered from the father who abandoned her as a child, bringing up the memories of her early childhood.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Asta and Yuno are two orphans who want the same thing: to become the Wizard King. Locked in a friendly rivalry, they work hard towards their goal. While Yuno excels at magic, Asta has a problem uncommon in this world: he has no powers! But, on the day they receive their grimoires, they surprise everyone. To reach their goal, they'll each find their own path to greatness-with or without magic.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Asta and Yuno are two orphans who want the same thing: to become the Wizard King. Locked in a friendly rivalry, they work hard towards their goal. While Yuno excels at magic, Asta has a problem uncommon in this world: he has no powers! But, on the day they receive their grimoires, they surprise everyone. To reach their goal, they'll each find their own path to greatness-with or without magic.
93) 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.
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In a far away land of jungles and wild animals, there lived a little orphan boy who was all alone in the world. But he knew that no matter how hard life can be, it's always better if you can share it with a friend. This is the story of how he found one, an elephant named Lucky. Together they face a changing world, but always manage to triumph. After a series of humorous challenges, they discover the Academy of Art, where elephants learn to paint....
95) 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.
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2009?]
Language
Gujarati
Description
"Rasiklal was more of a friend to his sons Prem and Bunty, than a domineering parent. With his wife away to her parents', Rasiklal with his sons found the playing field wide open and set out to enjoy this new found freedom. Then disaster struck. Just when the fun was about to begin, a courier service delivered a surprise package! A baby boy! How Rasiklal and his fun loving sons faced the music, turn the catastrophe upside down, provides for a much...
97) Nocturna
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A young boy named Tim finds an unusual discovery on the rooftop of his orphanage that plunges him into a secret world, inhabited by curious creatures that control the night.
99) Pete's dragon
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
[Blu-ray/DVD combo].
Language
English
Description
For years, Mr. Meacham has told tales of the fierce dragon deep in the woods. To his daughter, Grace, these stories are little more than tall tales, until she meets Pete. Pete is a mysterious ten-year-old with no family who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliot.
100) The secret garden
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A classic adventure of a young orphan sent to live at the dark and foreboding English estate of her widowed uncle and his crippled son. Led by a strong will and a stubborn temperament, Mary Lennox discovers the existence of a secret garden, the history of which slowly reveals the mystery of her uncle and his son's embittered lives. Eventually, the beloved garden becomes the only hope for their happiness and restoration from the haunting grip of the...
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