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• A Thorny Path, by Hesba Stretton (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Pyxie: A Little Boy of the Pines (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1932), by Ethel Calvert Phillips, illust. by Maginel Wright Barney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Goostie (Little, Brown and Company, 1901), by Mary Caroline Hyde (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jessie Carlton; the story of a girl who fought with little Impulse, the wizard, and conquered him. (Howe & Ferry, 1861), by Daniel Wise, Alexander, John D. Felter, Elias James Whitney, Robert Craighead, Brown & Taggard, Shea & Lindsay Rennie, and Howe & Ferry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The children in the wood : a tale for the nursery : with copper-plates. (William Darton, Jun., 1819), by William Darton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The affecting history of the children in the wood (Dean and Munday :, 1814) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Street life in New York with the boot-blacks. (Henry T. Coates, 1895), by Horatio Alger (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Belle Nivernaise : the story of an old boat and her crew (Cassell, 1892), by Alphonse Daudet and Robert Routledge (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hermit of the forest : $b or, Wandering infants, a rural tale (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Mysterious Basket; or, The Foundling. A Story for Boys and Girls (Gutenberg ebook)
• Molly and Kitty, or Peasant Life in Ireland; with Other Tales, by Maria Burg and Olga Eschenbach, trans. by Trauermantel (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Adopting of Rosa Marie: (A Sequel to Dandelion Cottage), by Carroll Watson Rankin, illust. by Miriam Selss and Florence Scovel Shinn (Gutenberg ebook)
• Polly in New York, by Lillian Elizabeth Roy, illust. by Harold S. Barbour (Gutenberg ebook)
• Molly and Kitty, or, Peasant life in Ireland (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, & Co., 1856), by Olga Eschenbach, Maria Burg, Trauermantel, Nichols Crosby, and S.W. Chandler & Bro (page images at Florida)
• The squire's daughter (Boston: Henry Hoyt, 1869), by Caroline E. Kelly Davis, J Hyde, Samuel Smith Kilburn, W. L Champney, Henry Hoyt, and William J Pierce (page images at Florida)
• Nanny Davenport (Boston: Henry Hoyt, 1869), by J. F. Moore, Henry Hoyt, Samuel Smith Kilburn, and Matthews & Robinson (page images at Florida)
• Children in the wood (London: Dean and Son, 185-?) (page images at Florida)
• The Little Robinson of Paris, or, industry's triumph (Philadelphia: J. & J. L. Gihon, 1850), by Eugénie d. 1853 Foa, trans. by Lucy Landon (page images at Florida)
• Little Mr. Van Vere of China (Boston: Dana Estes & Company, c1898), by Harriet A. Cheever, illust. by Etheldred B. Barry (page images at Florida)
• Little Mr. Van Vere of China (Boston: Dana Estes & Company, c1898), by Harriet A. Cheever, illust. by Etheldred B. Barry (page images at Florida)
• The weaver of Quellbrunn, or, The roll of cloth (Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, 1871), by Christian Gottlob Barth (page images at Florida)
• Bel's baby (London: S.W. Partridge & Co., 1893), by Mary E Ropes (page images at Florida)
• Bébée or, Two little wooden shoes (Boston: Joseph Knight Company, 1896), by Ouida, illust. by Etheldred B. Barry (page images at Florida)

• Orphan boy (Published by W.B. Gilley, 92 Broadway. N. Van Riper, printer., 1819), by Mary Elliott and John Scoles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fighting for his own : or, The fortunes of a young artist (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1903), by Edward Stratemeyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jack's ward. (Porter & Coates, 1875), by Horatio Alger and Porter & Coates (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Foundling of the Wreck, illust. by Edward Whymper (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Mysterious Basket; or, The Foundling. A Story for Boys and Girls (Gutenberg ebook)
• The History of Little Jack, a Foundling, by Thomas Day (Gutenberg ebook)
• That Little Girl of Miss Eliza's: A Story for Young People, by Jean K. Baird (Gutenberg ebook)
• Victor, ou L'enfant de la forêt (in French), by M. Ducray-Duminil (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Sailor's Lass, by Emma Leslie (Gutenberg ebook)
• The storm's gift (London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, n.d.) (page images at Florida)

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• Sans famille (Heath, 1925), by Hector Malot and I. H. B. Spiers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compte rendu sténographique. (E. Guyot, 1891), by Belgium) Congrès International pour l'Étude des Questions Relatives au Patronage des comdamnés des Enfants Moralement Abandonnés et des aliénés (1st : 1890 : Antwerp (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire des enfants abandonnés et délaissés : études sur la protection de l'enfance aux diverses époques de la civilisation (A. Picard, 1885), by Léon Lallemand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sul patronato dei liberati dal carcere e dei minorenni abbandonati; note. (Avvenire di Sardegna, 1891), by Enrico Dedoni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lo spedale di Santa Maria degl'Innocenti di Firenze dalla sua fondazione ai giorni nostri. (E. Ariani, 1900), by Gaetano Bruscoli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Pied Piper (c1942), by Nevil Shute (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Sans famille (Heath, 1925), by Hector Malot and I. H. B. Spiers (page images at HathiTrust)

• Der tatbestand der aussetzung nach [section symbol] 221 des deutschen reichsstrafgesetzbuches. (Hanau a. M., 1905), by A. Fenner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Abandonment of children in Jamaica (Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, 1974), by Erna Brodber (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Babes in the wood (London: Sampson, Low, Son & Co., 1861) (page images at Florida)
• The babes in the wood (New York: McLoughlin Bros., 1884) (page images at Florida)

• Federal funding for enforcement of child support (State of California, Health and Welfare Agency, Dept. of Benefit Payments, 1977), by California. Department of Benefit Payments (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Hearing on babies without homes : babies abandoned at birth : hearing before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, hearing held in Washington, DC, May 28, 1992. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1992), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education (page images at HathiTrust)

• Treatment for abused and neglected children (National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, Children's Bureau, Administration for Children, Youth and Families, Office of Human Development Services, U.S. Dept. of Health Education and Welfare, 1979), by Harold P. Martin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Des hospices d'enfans trouvés, en Europe, et principalement en France, depuis leur origine jusqu'à nos jours; par Bernard Benoit Remacle ... (Treuttel et Würtz: [etc., etc.], 1838), by Bernard-Benoît Remacle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire des enfants abandonnés depuis l'antiquité jusqu'a nos jours, le tour (E. Plon, 1880), by Ernest Semichon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire des enfants trouvés (Paulin, 1840), by J. F. Terme and Jean Baptiste Monfalcon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches sur les enfants-trouvés et les enfants illégitimes, en Russie, dans le reste de l'Europe, en Asie et en Amérique; précédées d'un essai sur l'histoire des enfants-trouvés depuis les temps les plus anciens jusqu'a nos jours ... (Firmin Didot frères, 1839), by Antoine Jeudy Du Gour (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aerztlicher Bericht. (Wien., in the 19th century), by Vienna (Austria). Niederösterreichische Landes-Gebär-und Findelanstalt in Wien (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches historiques et statistiques sur l'intempérance de classes laborieuses; et sur les enfants trouvés ... (Guillaumin et cie, 1848), by L.-A. Labourt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Considérations générales sur la contagion de la maladie vénérienne des enfans trouvés a leurs nourrices : suivies de la relation d'une affection syphilitique communiquée à plusieurs femmes par la succion de seins (Leleux, 1825), by F. Bourgogne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Het te vondeling leggen in Athene. (Groningen, 1922), by Hendrik Bolkestein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Silas Marner (Macmillan Co.;, 1899), by George Eliot and Edward Leeds Gulick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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