Gertrude Chandler Warner
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Boxcar children volume 80
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When a professional hockey player comes to Greenfield with plans to build an ice skating rink, the Alden children suspect that someone in town wants to stop the project.
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Boxcar children volume 157
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Jessie wants her science fair project to make a difference. So when she gets the chance to test a local creek for pollution, she can't wait to get started. But when things start going wrong with her experiment, Jessie and her siblings don't just have an experiment to investigate, they have a mystery to solve!
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Boxcar children volume 77
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English
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While visiting the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the Aldens see a mysterious wild horse that may be a ghost.
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Boxcar children volume 89
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English
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The Aldens take part in a hunt at a gem mine and discover that someone is out to sabotage the contest.
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Boxcar children volume 93
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English
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The Alden children are searching for a rare comic book of their favorite superhero, Captain Fantastic. They finally find the comic and something else, too--a strange note inside, signed by the comics creator. The Aldens realize the note is a fake.
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OBD Books for Second and Third Graders - YOUTH
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"The Aldens spend the summer on Grandfather's island! Joe, the island's friendly handyman, helps them with anything they need, but as the children continue to explore their summer home, they realize there is more to the island--and to their new friend--than meets the eye."--Publisher's description.
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Relates the exploits of the four Alden children as they locate a missing man. The Boxcar children are determined to solve the mystery that surrounds an old yellow house on their grandfather's property. Strange things have happened in that house where long ago a man disappeared.
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Boxcar children volume Prequel
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English
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In the year before they become the orphans known as the Boxcar children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden live with their parents at Fair Meadow Farm, where, although times are hard, they take in a family who has been stranded in their car during a blizzard.
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Explore the Classics - YOUTH
If You Liked...Magic Tree House
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The classic story of four orphaned siblings, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny, who find an abandoned boxcar in the forest and decide to make it their home--
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"The Aldens are spending spring break on a beach, but they aren't just soaking up the sun. They're protecting an endangered species! Their job is to mark sea turtle nests so the eggs can be moved to a safe place to hatch, but someone is digging up the eggs without permission. Can the Boxcar Children figure out what's going on and help save the sea turtles?" --
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Boxcar children volume 70
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English
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While the Aldens are visiting a friend of Grandfather's at the beach, Benny finds a long-lost piece of a map to a legendary pirate treasure, a discovery that brings unwanted attention from fortune hunters.
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Boxcar children volume 113
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English
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"One day in the park, the Aldens' dog, Watch, comes across a mysterious box with a note inside. 'Congratulations!' the note says. 'You've found it!' The box is part of a game called Geocaching. Soon, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are searching all over town for hidden boxes and making friends with other kids in the geocaching club. But is one of the club members a thief?" -- p. [4] of cover.
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Boxcar children volume 111
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English
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When the Alden children accompany their grandfather on a trip to Seattle, they discover clues throughout the city, seemingly planted just for them.
14) Surprise Island
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Summer vacation on an almost private island gives the Aldens a challenge. Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather and are spending the summer on their own private island. There is a mysterious stranger on the island with a secret--but that's not the only surprise in store for the Boxcar Children.
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Boxcar children volume 75
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English
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The Aldens start a business producing birthday parties and find themselves investigating a series of robberies taking place during their parties.
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Boxcar children volume 74
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English
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The Aldens investigate when exotic and endangered animals begin to disappear from the zoo where their new friend Lindsey works.
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Boxcar children volume 110
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English
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The Aldens investigate when an old wooden mask they have found is stolen.
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Boxcar children volume 79
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English
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While staying at the Crooked House, the family home of their housekeeper Mrs. McGregor, the Aldens try to solve a riddle that will lead them to a hidden treasure.
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Boxcar children volume 109
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English
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The Boxcar children must track down an instrument thief in time to save Greenfield's music festival from disaster.
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Boxcar children volume 63
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English
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At the request of their distant relative Althea, the Boxcar Children arrive at her old Virginia mansion and investigate the mysterious incidents happening there.