"Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story, for readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale. Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive...

It began well, an experiment in techniques to teach high-risk children, poor, minority, children, the life-strategies that will allow them to succeed in life. And, not just succeed, but overcome the odds and become wildly successful. They chose as their model a man who had done it all, Alexander Marcus, a black man who raised himself up from poverty to become one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in America. The imprinting is effective. The children...

"Forced to hid her true identity, Zahra, a teenage genie, finds her chance for freedom challenged by her love for her master, Aladdin."--NoveList.

In New England in the late nineteenth-century, a fatherless family, happy in spite of its impoverished condition, is befriended by a very rich gentleman and his young son.

"Great Expectations is among the most masterful of Charles Dickens's novels. Displaying extraordinary tragicomic range, Dickens blends an atmosphere of brooding violence and guilt with sharp and often disturbing humor to create a drama charged with the thrilling intensity of a detective story and the poignancy of a spiritual autobiography. Much of the novel's power comes from Dickens's unequaled skill at making even the most wildly eccentric of characters...

"I ain't knocked round the city streets all my life for nothin'," proclaims Ragged Dick, the fast-talking boy hero of Horatio Alger's classic rags-to-riches tale. Dick is a plucky street boy who smokes, gambles, and speaks ungrammatically--but he is also honest and hardworking, striving not for wealth and status, but for a steady job, a decent place to sleep, and respectability. A quintessential boy's novel of adventure, romance, and coming of age,...

Sarah Stone and Jared Roberts are both angry at the world. Sarah, though wealthy and seemingly lacking for nothing, is angry because her father is too busy for her. Jared who lives in an inner city and comes from a broken home is angry because life is unfair and hard. Jared determines to do something about it and decides to rob Sarah's house immediately before Christmas. Into the lives of these angry children comes Nicholas, a mysterious little man,...

Orphan Pip is raised by his harsh older sister and kind brother-in-law. It would seem that Pip will always have a hard life until he meets the convict Magwich and the mad Miss Havisham.

Tatanawal liza winghit fi hadhih alriwayat faslan min tarikh amtna yakad la yasadiq watahukuh fi hikayat baqiatin. sawf taqshaeir abdankm limaerifat an jurjia tan wajameiatiha almusamaaa "mawa atfal tinisi" fi mamfis qad wujidata bialfiela, wakhaleata hayaatan ma la yuhsaa min alatfal, wasariqata madihim waghirata mustaqbalihim. lakina almathrt alhaqiqiat lihadhih alriwayat almushajiat hi ghawsuha aleamiq fi qalb ril fus, alghajariat dhat alaithnay...