Gertrude Chandler Warner

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Four orphaned children run away and live in a boxcar, until they are found by their grandfather. Includes a biography and photographs of the author.

2) Surprise Island

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Now happily establshed with their grandfather, the 4 Aldens finish the school year looking forward to a promised surprise. Grandfather owns an island, and they are going to live in a house on it for the summer! But who is the mysterious young man staying with the fisherman, the only other resident on the island?

3) The yellow house mystery

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The boxcar children travel to Maine, take canoes into the wilderness and live in a house exactly like the one on Surprise Island, except the Maine house is brown, not yellow. They untangle the mystery of the two houses.

4) Mike's mystery

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The adventure begins when the entire town of Yellow Sands is left puzzled by a mysterious fire. Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny have returned to Mystery Rancy for their summer vacation, and they find themselves reunited with their summertime friend, Mike. Mike has been wrongly accused of starting the fire, but with the help of the Boxcar children, he uncovers the real culprit.

5) The boxcar children collection

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The Boxcar Children
Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny, four orphaned siblings, suddenly appear in a small town. The children make a home for themselves in an abandoned red boxcar they discover in the woods. Ambitious and resourceful, the plucky children make a happy life for themselves—until Violet gets too sick for her brothers and sister to care for her.

Surprise Island
Adventure abounds as Henry, Jessie, Violet,...

6) Blue Bay mystery

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The Boxcar Children are taking a vacation on an uninhabited South Seas island. They soon suspect someone else is there too, someone who may not want them around!

7) Mystery ranch

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Violet and Jessie begin an adventure when they journey to Centerville to keep Aunt Jane company on the family ranch.

8) Benny uncovers a mystery

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Two brothers take summer jobs at a department store where a series of peculiar events brings them under suspicion.

9) Schoolhouse mystery

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The Boxcar Children are spending the summer in a tiny, quiet New England fishing village. The little schoolhouse doesn't have a proper teacher, so the Aldens are teaching! There's also a very old library where nobody ever goes- nobody, that is, except for a mysterious stranger. For such a small town , Port Elizabeth has a lot of secrets!

10) Bicycle mystery

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While on a bicycle trip to their aunt's farm, the four Aldens help solve a mystery.

11) Caboose mystery

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When the Aldens spend the summer riding on a train, they get to live in a train car once again- this time they're staying in Caboose Number 777. The number is hard to forget , and indeed, the children meet people at each stop who seem to know it well. It turns out Caboose Number 777 has an unusual past- one that comes with its very own mystery.

12) The Doughnut Whodunit

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A hip new doughnut shop known for its bizarre recipes is opening up in Greenfield. At first, the owners of the other doughnut shop in town, Delilah's, aren't worried. Their shop has been a fixture downtown since just after World War II. But when the new shop starts making doughnuts that look just like some of Delilah's greatest hits, the Boxcar Children must figure out if it's just a coincidence or if someone from the new shop is stealing Delilah's

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13) Mountain top mystery

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A family starts out on a one-day mountain climbing excursion that becomes very exciting. In fact, it becomes an adventure for the former "boxcar" family. They unearth some mysteries and have a fine time in the process.

14) The lighthouse mystery

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The Alden children, who are spending the summer in a lighthouse on the New England coast, are disturbed by a mysterious woman walking on the lighthouse grounds.

15) Tree house mystery

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Six children help solve the mystery of a missing spyglass that has kept two brothers feuding for years.

16) Mystery in the sand

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A friendly writer with a metal detector, the mysterious inhabitants of a tower house, and the discovery of a locket in the sand are ingredients for the Aldens' latest mystery.

17) Snowbound mystery

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Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny become trapped in a cabin by an unexpected snowstorm, which turns into an even greater adventure when they help their neighbors, a baker and his family, recover an old family secret.

18) Houseboat mystery

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The Alden family rents a houseboat to drift down the river, and encounters a mystery in the little towns along the river, involving a fast black car.

19) Mystery behind the wall

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A young Canadian visitor helps the Alden family solve a mystery involving a lost coin collection.

20) The Boxcar Children Box Set

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