Maddie Grande grew up a thief and beggar in a tribe of street urchins in New Orleans. Hoping for a new life, she moves to the bayou with her twin "brothers" and fellow tribemates. But her brothers kidnap the daughter of a wealthy carpetbagger and force Maddie to hide the precocious eight-year-old. As Maddie stands at a crossroads in her life, the child escapes. When Pinkerton agent Tom Abbott is assigned to the case, there's no denying their mutual...

In Chennai, india, after spending his whole life in jail with his mother, who is serving time for a crime she did not commit, nine-year-old Kabir is suddenly released and has to figure out how to survive on his own in the outside world.

"Swinging London, Summer 1967. Sixteen-year-old Estella, gifted with talent, ingenuity, and ambition, dreams of becoming a renowned fashion designer. But life seems intent on making sure her dreams never come true. Having arrived in London as a young girl, Estella now runs wild through the city streets with Jasper and Horace, amateur thieves who double as Estella's makeshift family and partners-in-(petty)-crime. How can Estella dedicate herself to...

Fourteen-year-olds Raphael and Gardo team up with a younger boy, Rat, to figure out the mysteries surrounding a bag Raphael finds during their daily life of sorting through trash in a third-world country's dump.