The Hockey Mystery (The Boxcar Children Series #80)

by Gertrude Chandler Warner (Created by)

Overview

Kevin Reynolds, the Aldens' favorite hockey star, plans to build a new ice rink in Greenfield and invites Jessie to join his new girls hockey team. But equipment goes missing and Kevin's blueprints are ruined. Someone's not happy about the rink, and the Aldens are determined to figure out why!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807533437
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	01/01/2001
Series:	Boxcar Children Series
Pages:	144
Sales rank:	407,306
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 7.68(h) x 0.32(d)
Lexile:	630L (what's this?)
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

Gr 3-6-Gertrude Chandler Warner's Boxcar children-Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny-once again find themselves right in the middle of a mystery (Whitman, pap. 2001). While skating at the local ice rink, the children are surprised to meet retired hockey star Kevin Reynolds who has just moved to Greenfield and plans to create a girls hockey team, the Polar Bears, and build a new ice rink. When Kevin sees how well Jessie, a figure skater, skates, he invites her to join the Polar Bears and Henry to be an assistant coach. At their very first practice though, mysterious things begin to happen. First the orange cones to be used by the team during practice go missing, then ink is spilled all over the plans for the new skating rink, and Jessie's figure skates are stolen. The list of their suspects quickly grows to include Kevin's daughter Kathy, a team player's mother, and the figure skating coach. Narrator Aimee Lilly captures the mysterious moments, the thrill of a hockey game, and quiet family times by giving the characters individual personalities with subtle voice changes. The reading is well paced so that listeners can read along with the book. A welcome addition to elementary grade collections.-Veronica Schwartz, Des Plaines Public Library, IL Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

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