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Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Four orphaned and homeless siblings happen upon an abandoned boxcar, which, with a little creativity and hard work, they gradually furnish with all the comforts of home. Fearful that they will be sent to live with the reputedly cruel grandfather they have never met, the children keep their new home a secret.
2) The spy game
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 118
Publisher
Albert Whitman and Company
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When the children uncover a strange puzzle in a friend's back yard, it's the start of a "spy game" leading to gold. But first they must make sense of an old photo and a riddle, and learn just who is behind this mystery within a mystery.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 12
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
[1967]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 117
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When the Boxcar children help out in a local garden, they dig up one strange thing after another! First, the tomato plants seem to move every day. Find out how that can be.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 141
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"In the town of Sleepy Hollow, the Aldens discover an old legend that's come back to life! Their friend's ghost-tour business is being disrupted by a spooky figure on horseback who throws pumpkins in the streets and frightens everyone. Has the headless horseman returned to haunt the town? The Boxcar Children must find out before the ghost tours are ruined!" -- Jacket flap.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"While fishing and exploring a deserted South Seas island, the Alden children discover clues that they aren't alone"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The Aldens join Dr. Iris Perez as she travels to Iceland to look into the case of mysterious elves, investigating whether they are the cause of problems that are occurring on the island or if there is a natural explanation.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 115
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
A local radio station is holding the Great Detective Race, and the Boxcar Children have entered the contest! They solve riddles and search all over town for clues leading to the grand prize. But when some of the clues turn out to be fake, it's clear that someone is playing unfairly! Who could be trying to ruin the race - and why?
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 116
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The Aldens discover there's nothing more fun than a drive-in movie. But pranks and other odd things are happening at the Diamond Drive-In, and late at night, a ghost is seen walking around the empty lot. Is the old theater really haunted?
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"The Aldens are spending their first week of summer at Camp Quest in Colorado. The children are excited to learn about fossil hunting and paleontology from renowned scientist Dr. Iris Perez. But strange events at the camp make them wonder if the legends of a bigfoot-like creature roaming the valley might be more fact than fiction. Can the Aldens help Dr. Iris figure out who--or what--is causing such a stir?"--Amazon
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 150
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The Boxcar Children stumble across a 100-year-old time capsule with a mysterious journal inside. It contains clues that lead the children around Greenfield and through the history books in search of a lost treasure. But questions remain. Who wrote the journal? And after 100 years, will there be enough evidence to find the hidden treasure?
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 16
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
[1971]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny Alden discover that a mystery surrounds the run-down yellow house on Surprise Island. The children find a letter and other clues that could lead them on the trail of a man who vanished from the house.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 157
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
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!
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 33
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When their favorite pizza restaurant almost goes out of business, the Alden children try to help their friends stay open while they find out who is behind all their problems.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 133
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Taking a shortcut through the Greenfield Cemetery, the Aldens stumble across a local superstition which maintains that visitors are required to leave gifts or suffer the wrath of a malevolent ghost, a suspicious tradition that prompts the children to expose the truth.
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