Books about Orphans -- Juvenile fiction (sorted alphabetically)
- Pieni hanhipaimen Yrjö (Finnish)
- Pikku prinsessa (Finnish) Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Pollyanna Eleanor H. Porter
- Pollyanna Eleanor H. Porter
- Pollyanna Grows Up Eleanor H. Porter
- Polly of Lady Gay Cottage Emma C. Dowd
- Polly of the Hospital Staff Emma C. Dowd
- Princess Sarah, and Other Stories John Strange Winter
- Puzzle in the Pond Margaret Sutton
- Quicksilver: The Boy With No Skid to His Wheel George Manville Fenn
- Rainbow Valley L. M. Montgomery
- Rainbow Valley L. M. Montgomery
- Rajah of Dah George Manville Fenn
- Rehti-Jaakko (Finnish) Frederick Marryat and Gustav Höcker
- Rich Little Poor Boy Eleanor Gates
- Rivers of Ice R. M. Ballantyne
- robbers' cave : A tale of Italy A. L. O. E.
- Rough and Ready; Or, Life Among the New York Newsboys Jr. Horatio Alger
- royal banner : or, Gold and rubies M. H.
- royal smuggler : or, The adventures of two boys in the Indian Archipelago William Dalton
- Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm; Or, What Became of the Raby Orphans Alice B. Emerson
- Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence; Or, The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands Alice B. Emerson
- Ruth: Kertomus tytöille (Finnish) Anonymous
- Salainen puutarha (Finnish) Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Sara Crewe; Or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's Frances Hodgson Burnett