BOXCAR MYSTERIES
by Gertrude Chandler Warner
All Aboard for the Boxcar Mysteries!
Imagine what it would be like to live in a railroad boxcar with just your brothers and sisters and no adults to help you or take care of you. Meet Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny Alden --- the orphans known as the Boxcar Children --- who wind up living in an old red boxcar after their parents have died. Eventually the children's wealthy grandfather finds them and gives them a wonderful home, but their adventures don't stop there. They travel to all parts of the country, see exciting places, and become involved in strange and mysterious happenings --- sometimes right in their own backyard!
THE BOXCAR CHILDREN MYSTERIES are sixty years old this year and they are celebrating with a brand new 60th Anniversary edition. Kidsreads is celebrating too, with a feature full of reviews, a biography of their originator, Gertrude Chandler Warner, and some games just for the fun of it.
--- Reviewed by Ann L. Bruns
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