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Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c1986
Language
English
Description
Orphaned, Pazu is caught up in a thrilling adventure after Sheeta, a young girl wearing a glowing pendant, floats out of the night sky and into his life. Now, the pair must soar above the clouds in order to find the legendary floating city of Laputa and its treasures.
3) Annie
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
The story of the comic strip character Little Orphan Annie, who is adopted by billionaire "Daddy" Warbucks.
5) Oliver
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
When Oliver leaves a workhouse and ends up in London an abandoned orphan, he falls in with Fagin who teaches him to steal for a living.
6) Ballet shoes
Publisher
Distributed by Koch Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Three girls adopted by an explorer are raised as sisters by his niece. As each of the girls have their own dreams, they learn that in order to realize them, they must also keep their family together.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
After their mother dies, two boys travel for Venice, where they meet Scipio, the Thief Lord. Along with a small band of abandoned kids, the boys join Scipio's world of robbing the rich. Soon, they win the heart of the detective hired to track them.
8) Dinosaur
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001, c2000
Language
English
Description
Aladar, a young orphan dinosaur, has been raised by a clan of lemurs. Forced to leave their island home due to a meteor shower, the lemurs and Aladar roam the mainland, meet other dinosaurs for the first time, and encounter real dangers.
Publisher
Sullivan Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Contains three films that follow the life and adventures of Anne Shirley from her arrival on Prince Edward Island at the age of eleven, through her teaching career, her marriage to Gilbert, her work with the Red Cross during World War I, and her return to Green Gables.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Jamal Malik is an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's version of 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' When the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating. Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up. He describes their adventures together...
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Language
English
Description
Three children are taken in by a series of oddball relatives and others after their wealthy parents are killed in a fire. The first to take them in is the dastardly and cunning Count Olaf, who is only interested in their inheritance.
13) The BFG
Author
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It tells the imaginative story of a young girl and the Giant who introduces her to the wonders and perils of Giant Country. The BFG, while a giant himself, is a Big Friendly Giant and nothing like the other inhabitants of Giant Country. Standing 24-feet tall with enormous ears and a keen sense of smell, he is endearingly dim-witted and keeps to himself for the most part.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006, [1975]
Language
English
Description
Escape to Witch Mountain: Two children with supernatural powers are adopted by an evil millionaire who wants to use their powers for his selfish purposes. Soon they are fleeing townpeople who have branded the kids as witches.
Return from Witch Mountain: Tony and Tia must protect their supernatural powers from greedy Letha and her power-hungry scientist friend who want to exploit their mysterious abilities.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Jamal Malik is an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India's version of 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?' When the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating. Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up. He describes their adventures together...
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.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The spine-tingling tale of 10-year-old Lewis, who goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house with a mysterious tick-tocking heart. But his new town's sleepy façade jolts to life with a secret world of warlocks and witches.
19) Eragon
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Language
English
Description
Eragon is an orphaned farm boy whose destiny is sealed forever when a mystic stone chooses him for its keeper. This is no ordinary stone, this is the last surviving egg of the dragon race. Eragon is now the new Dragon Rider, the boy who will be a savior to the repressed peoples of the Kingdom. The Kingdom is ruled by the wicked King Galbatorix and his evil wizard Durza. Eragon, together with his mentor, Brom, the gracious dragon Saphira and the beautiful...
20) Oliver!
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, c1968
Language
English
Description
A screen adaptation of Lionel Bart's stage musical, "Oliver!" the story of a young orphan who flees a life of workhouse servitude and arrives in London where he is swept up by the Artful Dodger and Fagin who run a crime school for boys.
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