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Before We Were Yours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as orphanages)
avg rating 4.40 — 763,064 ratings — published 2017
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as orphanages)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,382,664 ratings — published 2011
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as orphanages)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,111,388 ratings — published 2020
The Misremembered Man (Tailorstown #1)
by (shelved 5 times as orphanages)
avg rating 3.86 — 17,552 ratings — published 2008
Songs of Willow Frost (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as orphanages)
avg rating 3.68 — 22,089 ratings — published 2013
The Tiger's Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as orphanages)
avg rating 3.42 — 103,660 ratings — published 2011
Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as orphanages)
avg rating 4.27 — 23,867 ratings — published 2011
The Orphan Collector (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as orphanages)
avg rating 4.24 — 65,120 ratings — published 2020
The Cider House Rules (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as orphanages)
avg rating 4.17 — 200,258 ratings — published 1985
Twelve Mighty Orphans: The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas Football (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as orphanages)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,505 ratings — published 2007
The Pirate Bride (Daughters of the Mayflower, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as orphanages)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,376 ratings — published 2018
Thornhill (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as orphanages)
avg rating 3.80 — 14,213 ratings — published 2017
Silent Tears: A Journey of Hope in a Chinese Orphanage (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as orphanages)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,211 ratings — published 2008
Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as orphanages)
avg rating 4.07 — 256,830 ratings — published 2014
Arcady's Goal (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as orphanages)
avg rating 3.82 — 672 ratings — published 2014
The Year We Sailed the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as orphanages)
avg rating 3.67 — 198 ratings — published 2014
The Christmas Dolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as orphanages)
avg rating 4.07 — 117 ratings — published 1967
The Lost Girls of Willowbrook (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as orphanages)
avg rating 3.90 — 63,588 ratings — published 2022
The Lonely Hearts Hotel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as orphanages)
avg rating 3.79 — 21,777 ratings — published 2017
The Night Gardener (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as orphanages)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,121 ratings — published 2016
Be Mine Forever (The Bennett Series, 3)
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avg rating 4.05 — 6,365 ratings — published 2015
When You Are Mine (The Bennett Series, 1)
by (shelved 1 time as orphanages)
avg rating 3.83 — 11,046 ratings — published 2014
Coram House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as orphanages)
avg rating 3.63 — 5,603 ratings — published 2025
The Instrumentalist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as orphanages)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,174 ratings — published 2024
The Honey Jar: An Armenian's Escape to Freedom (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 53 ratings — published 2023
The Teacher of Warsaw (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as orphanages)
avg rating 4.12 — 4,970 ratings — published 2022
Adrift in Currents Clean and Clear (Wayward Children, #10)
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avg rating 4.00 — 10,229 ratings — published 2025
We Own the Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as orphanages)
avg rating 3.87 — 418 ratings — published 2022
A Love So True (Teaville Moral Society, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as orphanages)
avg rating 4.12 — 590 ratings — published 2017
Shadows of the White City (The Windy City Saga, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as orphanages)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,171 ratings — published 2021
Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as orphanages)
avg rating 4.09 — 244,681 ratings — published 2024
The Lincoln Highway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as orphanages)
avg rating 4.21 — 328,047 ratings — published 2021
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as orphanages)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,911,053 ratings — published 2022
Whitethorn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as orphanages)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,472 ratings — published 2005
Love and Other Consolation Prizes (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.94 — 21,341 ratings — published 2017
The Fountains of Silence (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 87,239 ratings — published 2019
Landry's Back in Town (Rocky Ridge #1)
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avg rating 4.21 — 611 ratings — published
The Blue Umbrella (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 1968
Foster (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 204,668 ratings — published 2010
The Winter Orphans (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 3,157 ratings — published 2022
The Magician's Elephant (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as orphanages)
avg rating 3.87 — 27,909 ratings — published 2009
Ghosts of the Orphanage: A Story of Mysterious Deaths, a Conspiracy of Silence, and a Search for Justice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as orphanages)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,675 ratings — published 2023
The Captain's Woman (The Thompsons of Locust Street #4)
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avg rating 4.17 — 127 ratings — published
In Bed with the Devil (Scoundrels of St. James, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as orphanages)
avg rating 4.04 — 16,880 ratings — published 2008
The Echo Room (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as orphanages)
avg rating 3.34 — 1,447 ratings — published 2018
The Winter Companion (Parish Orphans of Devon, #4)
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avg rating 4.15 — 4,301 ratings — published 2020
Christmas Days: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 7,756 ratings — published 2016
Even Now (Lost Love, #1)
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avg rating 4.26 — 25,386 ratings — published 2005
The Foundling (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 15,189 ratings — published 2022
Britfield and the Lost Crown (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as orphanages)
avg rating 4.15 — 800 ratings — published 2019
“When she turned eighteen, Tara had traveled to India in search of her father. She hadn't found him, but she had spent ten years in a yoga ashram in Jammu. She'd come home with Siddhartha, a four-year-old boy she'd adopted, and joined her mother in running the studio. Two years after that she'd adopted India from an orphanage in Bangkok, and two years after that China from an orphanage in Nairobi.
India hadn't known there was anything different about her family until a substitute teacher in her kindergarten classroom had looked at her with an expression India would come to know well as she grew up, and asked, Aren't you one of that yoga teacher's kids? The ones with the cleft lip scars adopted from three continents?
When India had told Sid about it on their way home from school, he'd said, But India and Thailand are on the same continent.
It's how India had learned that adults, even teachers, didn't always know everything. To India, their family was how families were supposed to be. Many years later, when China was in her rebellious phase, she had asked Tara why she had felt the need to adopt children from three countries.
I took a lifelong vow of celibacy. How else was I supposed to have children? That had been Tara's answer.”
― Incense and Sensibility
India hadn't known there was anything different about her family until a substitute teacher in her kindergarten classroom had looked at her with an expression India would come to know well as she grew up, and asked, Aren't you one of that yoga teacher's kids? The ones with the cleft lip scars adopted from three continents?
When India had told Sid about it on their way home from school, he'd said, But India and Thailand are on the same continent.
It's how India had learned that adults, even teachers, didn't always know everything. To India, their family was how families were supposed to be. Many years later, when China was in her rebellious phase, she had asked Tara why she had felt the need to adopt children from three countries.
I took a lifelong vow of celibacy. How else was I supposed to have children? That had been Tara's answer.”
― Incense and Sensibility
“We can point the finger at adults for the stupid decisions they make in life, but an orphaned child can never be blamed for the situation in which they find themselves.”
― In the Shadow of Time
― In the Shadow of Time
