Growing up
Orphans, schoolgirls and children who see more than the adults think.
- Anne of Green GablesMatthew and Marilla Cuthbert, an elderly brother and sister living at Green Gables in Avonlea, arrange to adopt an orphan boy to help Matthew farm.
- A Little PrincessSeven-year-old Sara Crewe leaves India with her devoted father, Captain Ralph Crewe, to attend Miss Minchin's school in London.
- Daddy-Long-LegsJerusha Abbott grows up in the John Grier Home, an orphanage, and longs for life beyond it.
- FrecklesFreckles, a lonely young man with one hand and no family history he considers his own, asks McLean for work guarding timber in the Limberlost swamp.
- A Girl of the LimberlostElnora Comstock wants an education and a life beyond her impoverished home near the Limberlost swamp.
- What Maisie KnewAfter Beale Farange and Ida divorce, their daughter Maisie moves between their households.
- Anne's House of DreamsAnne Shirley marries Gilbert Blythe and leaves Green Gables for a small rented house near Four Winds Harbor, where Gilbert begins practicing medicine.
- Agnes GreyAgnes Grey leaves her sheltered family home to become a governess, hoping to earn money, help her family, and prove herself capable.
