At the edge of the city, in the ruins of an old amphitheatre, there lives a little homelss girl called Momo. Momo has a special talent which she uses to help all her friends who come to visit her. Then one day the sinister men in grey arrive and silently take over the city.

In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king's long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war.

When Birdie Bloom, an orphan who is doomed to an unhappy ending, receives a letter from Agnes Prunella Crunch, a witch, they become accidental pen pals and end up changing the course of their lives.

Orphaned after a fever epidemic, Creel befriends a dragon and unknowingly inherits an object that can either save or destroy her kingdom.

The woeful saga of the Baudelaire orphans continues as evil Count Olaf discovers their whereabouts at Esmé Squalor's seventy-one bedroom penthouse and concocts a new plan for stealing their family fortune.

"April thought she had her happy ending. After all, she has her new house and new friends and new guardian. But she also has a very big new secret. The kids of Winterborne House are the only ones who know that Gabriel Winterborne--famous billionaire and terrible cook--is really a sword-wielding vigilante. What they don't know is that he's not the only one. When a masked figure breaks in, looking for something--or someone--it's clear that Gabriel has...

"Soldier. Summoner. Saint. Alina Starkov's power has grown, but not without a price. She is the Sun Summoner--hunted across the True Sea, haunted by the lives she took on the Shadow Fold. But she and Mal can't outrun their enemies for long. The Darkling is more determined than ever to claim Alina's magic and use it to take the Ravkan throne. With nowhere else to turn, Alina enlists the help of an infamous privateer and sets out to lead the Grisha...

"A realistic fiction picture book about a little girl named Yula--an orphan who is discovered living alone and brought to live at the Hope Development Centre in Kikima, Kenya. As Yula finds herself cared for, she learns to care for others. With its rich, authentic setting in Africa and the endorsement of orphanage staff, this is a poignant and heartwarming tale for all ages."-- Provided by publisher.

With the Clock Diamond in hand, Ivy Pocket races to rescue her best friend from a parallel world, but she must elude a man in a white suit who is following her everywhere and the Butterfields, who have hatched another plot to lock Ivy away.

Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.