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* The ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series, of course. Then again, both of Harry's parents are dead -- and most of the other parental figures he acquires either abuse or betray him, or are killed. And the Dursleys who raised him get slightly sympathetic by the end. (Well, his aunt and cousin do anyways. [[Evil Uncle|The uncle]] stays a [[Jerkass]].) |
* The ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series, of course. Then again, both of Harry's parents are dead -- and most of the other parental figures he acquires either abuse or betray him, or are killed. And the Dursleys who raised him get slightly sympathetic by the end. (Well, his aunt and cousin do anyways. [[Evil Uncle|The uncle]] stays a [[Jerkass]].) |
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* This is the entire point of the new book series ''[[The 39 Clues]]'' in which two children find themselves to be heirs to the most powerful family on earth. |
* This is the entire point of the new book series ''[[The 39 Clues]]'' in which two children find themselves to be heirs to the most powerful family on earth. |
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* {{spoiler|Kaye}} from Holly Black's ''[[Modern Tales |
* {{spoiler|Kaye}} from Holly Black's ''[[Modern Faerie Tales]]'' is a [[Changeling Tale|literal changeling]], swapped as an infant for a human baby. She later meets the child she was switched with, who has aged only a few years in the Seelie Court. |
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* ''[[Oliver Twist]]'' by [[Charles Dickens]] is a low-rent version, where the missing parent turns out to be middle-class -- but given that the title character was thoroughly poverty-stricken, it's a major leg up. |
* ''[[Oliver Twist]]'' by [[Charles Dickens]] is a low-rent version, where the missing parent turns out to be middle-class -- but given that the title character was thoroughly poverty-stricken, it's a major leg up. |
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* In Eva Ibbotson's ''The Star of Kazan'', the main character, Annika, a [[Moses in the Bulrushes|foundling]], despite having a loving family, endlessly dreams of the rich woman who will sweep into the house one day and tearfully ask for the baby she abandoned in a church years ago. Of course, when such a woman really does appear, Annika finds that she does not like life as a [[Aristocrats Are Evil|noblewoman's daughter]] and, at the end of the book, {{spoiler|is perfectly willing to accept that the woman is not her real mother, as expressed by her ''jumping off of a boat'' to get away from her}}. |
* In Eva Ibbotson's ''The Star of Kazan'', the main character, Annika, a [[Moses in the Bulrushes|foundling]], despite having a loving family, endlessly dreams of the rich woman who will sweep into the house one day and tearfully ask for the baby she abandoned in a church years ago. Of course, when such a woman really does appear, Annika finds that she does not like life as a [[Aristocrats Are Evil|noblewoman's daughter]] and, at the end of the book, {{spoiler|is perfectly willing to accept that the woman is not her real mother, as expressed by her ''jumping off of a boat'' to get away from her}}. |
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