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1) 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.
Author
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham has delighted local children with his tales of the fierce dragon that resides deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. To his daughter, Grace, who works as a forest ranger, these stories are little more than tall tales, until she meets Pete. Pete is a mysterious ten-year-old with no family and no home who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliot.
3) 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.
4) 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.
5) Leap!
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
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.
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.
7) 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...
9) Heidi
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.
10) 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.
11) Heidi
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
p2001, 1937
Language
English
Description
Story of a girl sent to live with her hermit grandfather in the Alps, where her influence reconciles her grandfather to the town. Then her aunt takes her away from the grandfather she has come to love, to live in Frankfurt as the companion of a crippled girl whom Heidi encourages to try walking again.
12) The jungle book
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An epic adventure about Mowgli, a man-cub who's been raised by a family of wolves. Mowgli finds he is no longer welcome in the jungle when fearsome tiger Shere Khan, who bears the scars of Man, promises to eliminate what he sees as a threat. Urged to abandon the only home he's ever known, Mowgli embarks on a captivating journey of self discovery, guided by panther turned stern mentor Bagheera, and the free spirited bear Baloo.
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
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
After an exotic childhood spent in India, young Sara Crewe finds herself in New York, immured in Miss Minchin girls' school as her father sails off to World War I. When he is lost, a severe reversal of fortune ensues. Thanks to him, Sara knows that "All girls are princesses . . . even if they wear rags or are not pretty or smart." Summoning all the qualities of a true princess, patrician and bereft Sara uses her creativity and sense of self-worth...
16) 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.
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.
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.
19) Hugo
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The tale of an orphan boy living a secret life in the walls of a Paris train station. When Hugo encounters a broken machine, an eccentric girl, and the cold, reserved man who runs the toy shop, he is caught up in a magical, mysterious adventure that could put all of his secrets in jeopardy.
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