The Boxcar Children Mysteries Boxed Set #1-4

by Gertrude Chandler Warner

Overview

Introduce a new generation of readers to the Boxcar Children® chapter books with this classic boxed set, featuring the first four books in the series. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden are four brave siblings who were searching for a home when they discovered a life of mystery and adventure!

This boxed set includes the following titles:
#1 The Boxcar Children: When four orphaned children find an abandoned boxcar in the woods, they decide to call it home—and become the Boxcar Children!
#2 Surprise Island: As the Alden children explore their summer home, they realize there is more to the island—and to a new friend—than meets the eye.
#3 The Yellow House Mystery: A long-lost clue leads the Alden children to a mysterious old house while on summer vacation.
#4 Mystery Ranch:
The Alden children make a discovery that leads them to investigate a mystery involving their family ranch.

What started as a single story about the Alden Children has delighted readers for generations and sold more than 80 million books worldwide. Featuring timeless adventures, mystery, and classic illustrations, The Boxcar Children® series continues to inspire children to learn, question, imagine, and grow.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807508541
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	09/01/1990
Series:	The Boxcar Children Mysteries: A Stepping Stone Book (TM)
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	672
Sales rank:	14,280
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.60(h) x 1.80(d)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

Gertrude Chandler Warner grew up in Putnam, Connecticut. She wrote The Boxcar Children because she had always dreamed about what it would be like to live in a caboose or a freight car—just as the Aldens do. When readers asked for more adventures, Warner wrote more books—a total of nineteen in all. After her death, other authors have continued to write stories about Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden, and today The Boxcar Children® series has more than one hundred books.

Editorial Reviews

Since the original publication of The Boxcar Children in 1942, Gertrude Warner's Boxcar Children books have enchanted children across the country. Now the first four in this popular series are together in one box! Join Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden (the Boxcar Children) as they join forces to uncover lots of suspenseful and puzzling mysteries. After the orphans find their new home -- and a new grandfather -- in the beloved classic The Boxcar Children, Surprise Island finds them spending the summer on Grandpa Alden's nearly deserted island and dealing with its many obstacles. The adventures continue in the third book, The Yellow House Mystery, in which the Aldens backpack their way to Maine in hopes of discovering an empty house's secret, and Mystery Ranch has the children trekking out west, where Grandpa Alden's sister Jane is living alone on her ranch.

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