The story of the comic strip character Little Orphan Annie, who is adopted by billionaire "Daddy" Warbucks.

At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Unable to read or write or recall the name of his hometown or even his own last name, he survived alone for weeks on the rough streets of Calcutta before ultimately being transferred to an agency and adopted by a couple in Australia.

The iconic musical follows smart and spirited little orphan Annie, whose whole life changes when larger-than-life billionaire Daddy Warbucks takes her away from an orphanage run by the mean Miss Hannigan.

After she rescues dozens of children who survived a massacre in Jerusalem in 1948, Palestinian Hind Husseini establishes an orphanage that helps thousands of other children left homeless by violence. But the success of her peace-through-education institution is tested when pupil Miral gets a taste of radical politics in the region's refugee camps.

Jacob discovers clues to a mystery and stumbles upon Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. However the mystery is deeper than he had thought, as he gets to know the residents and learn about their special powers. Jacob discovers that only his own special peculiarity can save his new friends.

After Jake Blues is release from prison, he and brother Elwood go to visit the old home where they were raised by nuns. They learn the church is no longer supporting the institution and will sell the place to the education authority. The only way to keep the place open is if the $5000 tax on the property is paid within the next 11 days. The brothers want to help and decide to put their blues band back together and raise the the money by staging a...

Olden days coat: When Sal find out that she'll be trading time with her playmates for Christmas at her Grandmother's house, she is less tan enthusiastic. But when she discovers a magical coat in her Grandmothers attic, her holiday becomes much more exciting ; Song for the season: When Cal and his niece move to Bethlehem, Kentucky, they are lacking Christmas spirit. But when they meet the lovely music teacher Lily Waite, both Cal and fern have a change...

Under the Mistletoe: Susan Chandler has devoted her life to helping others while rarely thinking about helping herself. This year the tables will turn when a local radio station takes over her love life after an innocent call from her eight year old son. Whether she likes it or not, Susan is under the mistletoe. Holiday Wishes: Britney, a rich, spoiled child, and Rachel, an orphan, switch bodies after visiting Santa Claus at the mall. Each girl wakes...

In National Lampoon's Animal house, the members of Delta Tau Chi fraternity offend the straight-arrow and up-tight people on campus in a comedy film which irreverently mocks college traditions. In The Blues Brothers, Jake Blues, recently released from prison, and his brother Elwood reassemble their blues band and stage a concert to raise money for the orphanage where they grew up. The jerk is the story of the adopted son of a poor black sharecropper...

It is often said that the best comedy springs from hard times. And Rita Mae Brown has seen plenty of those. In this irresistibly readable memoir, she recounts the drama of her birth as the illegitimate daughter of a flighty blue blood who left her in an orphanage. The sickly baby was quickly rescued by relatives eager to adopt her but afraid she would not survive the long journey home. Her determination to live, and shock everyone by doing it, has...