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Boxcar children

Author:
Warner, Gertrude Chandler, 1890-1979
Warner, Gertrude Chandler
MacLachlan, Patricia
Deutsch, Stacia
 
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Series Volume:
0001
Average Rating:
4 stars
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The Aldens begin their adventure by making a home in a boxcar. Their goal is to stay together, and in the process they find a grandfather.

2.  Surprise Island

 
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0002

3.  The yellow house mystery

 
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0003
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Series Volume:
0004
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"The Aldens spend the summer on their aunt's ranch! The ranch is a beautiful place, but it's also the source of trouble between Aunt Jane and Grandfather. As the Boxcar Children explore the land, they make an amazing discovery. Will it help mend Aunt Jane and Grandfather's relationship?"--Publisher's description.
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Series Volume:
0005
Average Rating:
5 stars
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The Alden children are excited to see their friend, Mike, while visiting their aunt, but when Mike is blamed for burning his house down, the siblings want to help Mike clear his name.
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Series Volume:
0006
Average Rating:
5 stars
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What will the Aldens discover on a vacation to a beautiful island in the South Seas? The island is supposed to be deserted, but as the Aldens explore, they start to find signs that they suggest they are not alone.
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Series Volume:
0007
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"On a farm, the Aldens find their oldest mystery yet! Adapted from Gertrude Chandler Warner's story of the same name, this early reader allows children to start reading with a Boxcar Children classic."--
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Series Volume:
0008
Average Rating:
5 stars
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The children, who are spending the summer in a lighthouse on the New England coast, are disturbed by a mysterious woman walking the lighthouse grounds. Jessie's dog Watch wakes up growling almost every evening at midnight, and Henry finds a puzzling note in the sand.
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Series Volume:
0009
Average Rating:
5 stars
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A family starts out on a one-day mountain climbing excursion that becomes very exciting. In fact, it becomes an adventure for the former "boxcar" family. They unearth some mysteries and have a fine time in the process.
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Series Volume:
0010
Average Rating:
2 stars
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Grandpa Alden and the Alden children encounter danger, excitement, adventure, and mystery in a quiet island fishing village.
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Series Volume:
0011
Average Rating:
5 stars
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The Alden children have an adventure as they journey along with the Little North Railroad in two cabooses rented for the summer by their grandfather.
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Series Volume:
0012
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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.
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Series Volume:
0013
Average Rating:
4 stars
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The Alden family, snowbound in a vacation cabin, discovers adventure in surrounding wild life, three children they find in the snow, and a search for a lost recipe.
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Series Volume:
0014
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The Alden children are helping their new neighbors build a tree house when they discover an attic window that not even their neighbors knew about.
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Series Volume:
0015
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While on a bicycle trip to their aunt's farm, the four Aldens help solve a mystery.
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Series Volume:
0016
Average Rating:
5 stars
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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.
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Series Volume:
0017
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"Hidden behind the wall of their guest room, a mysterious journal leads the Aldens on a search for a valuable collection"--
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Series Volume:
0018
Average Rating:
5 stars
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The Alden children, isolated in a storm at a small bus station, are led into a mystery centering on a polluted river.
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Series Volume:
0019
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Two brothers take summer jobs at a department store where a series of peculiar events brings them under suspicion.
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Series Volume:
0020
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The Alden children travel on a Mississippi paddle-wheel steamer to visit an old family friend in his cabin near Hannibal, Missouri, and try to discover who is responsible for the mysterious activities near the house.
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Series Volume:
0021
Average Rating:
3 stars
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At an old library, the Alden children discover a boy who needs their help and a stranger who is after a valuable object they found in the library.
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Series Volume:
0022
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The Alden children save an old woman's house, land, and all the animals in her animal shelter from greedy contractors.
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Series Volume:
0023
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Someone is trying to put Aunt Jane's motel out of business, but the Alden children aren't going to let that happen.
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Series Volume:
0024
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The Alden children hunt for their late grandmother's necklace that has been missing for years.
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Series Volume:
0025
Average Rating:
4 stars
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The Aldens search for carousel horses that have disappeared from an amusement park.
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Series Volume:
0026
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The Alden children investigate various mix-ups at a zoo run by their grandfather's friend in an effort to save it not only from pranksters but also from the town council.
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Series Volume:
0027
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While on a camping trip with their grandfather, the Alden children try to find out about the loud music and missing food that threatens to scare away other campers.
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Series Volume:
0028
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While helping run Jerry Taylor's general store, the Alden children investigate his mysterious employee Nancy.
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Series Volume:
0029
Average Rating:
5 stars
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While on a cruise with their grandfather, the Alden children help discover who is behind the mysterious troubles of the ship--disconnected phone lines, engine trouble, a man overboard--and still have fun sightseeing, eating, and swimming.
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Series Volume:
0030
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At the same time that the Alden children's efforts to raise money for a new hospital wing are being sabotaged by nasty tricks, they find their attempts to befriend the new girl Beth frustrated by her strange behavior.
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Series Volume:
0031
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While helping fix up the old house their cousins have bought, the Aldens hear stories about its being haunted and find evidence suggesting that there may be a ghost there.
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Series Volume:
0032
Average Rating:
5 stars
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When the Alden children accompany their grandfather to the Snow Haven Lodge, a series of odd occurrences threaten to disrupt the annual winter games.

33.  The pizza mystery

 
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Series Volume:
0033
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Series Volume:
0034
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When their grandfather arranges for them to spend two week at Sunny Oaks, the four Alden children enjoy settling into the routines of farm life but become suspicious about a mysterious horse locked in the stables.
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Series Volume:
0035
Average Rating:
5 stars
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The Alden children suspect someone of trying to sabotage the local dog show.
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Series Volume:
0036
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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The Alden children have another mystery to solve when they visit a castle and must figure out which of the guests has stolen the Stradivarius violin.
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Series Volume:
0037
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While visiting a Navaho Indian reservation in New Mexico, the Aldens try to save a forest under threat of development by proving it is the site of a lost, buried village, but someone is sabotaging their dig.
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Series Volume:
0038
Average Rating:
5 stars
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While staying at a hotel in New York City, the Aldens investigate a series of annoying pranks plaguing the management and guests.
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Series Volume:
0039
Average Rating:
5 stars
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While visiting the seaport town of Ragged Cove, Massachusetts, the Alden children find the ship's log of the Flying Cloud, shipwrecked in 1869, supposedly during a mutiny.
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Series Volume:
0040
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While canoeing and backpacking near Timberwolf Lake, the Aldens receive strange warnings to stay away from the area and stumble upon clues to a missing cache of stolen coins.
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Series Volume:
0041
Average Rating:
1 stars
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While visiting the Florida Keys, the Aldens encounter suspicious characters, strange incidents at night, and a plot to steal valuable coral.
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Series Volume:
0042
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The mysterious disappearance of a reclusive neighbor's cat involves the Boxcar children in some complicated detective work.
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Series Volume:
0043
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The Aldens become involved in a community theater production of "The Wizard of Oz," which is systematically and mysteriously being sabotaged.
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Series Volume:
0044
Average Rating:
5 stars
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When the Aldens go to the Pickering Natural History Museum to assist with the opening of a dinosaur exhibit, their work is hampered by a series of mysterious happenings.
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Series Volume:
0045
Average Rating:
5 stars
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The Alden children are thrilled when a famous orchestra comes to their town to perform, and when an original Mozart score turns up missing, they solve the mystery of its disappearance.

46.  The chocolate sundae mystery

 
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Series Volume:
0046
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Series Volume:
0047
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Benny wants adventure and finds it as he and the other Alden children help uncover the plan of those who would prevent ballooning from coming to Lloyd's Landing.
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Series Volume:
0048
Description:
When their grandfather buys a bookstore at auction in New Orleans, the Alden children help clean it up and discover that several people seem to be obsessed with the store and its contents.
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Series Volume:
0049
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The Alden children plan to ride in their boxcar at the Greenfield Founders' Day Parade, but the newly refurbished boxcar is stolen a couple of days before the big event.
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Series Volume:
0050
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While exploring the caves around Dragon's Mouth Cavern, a series of unusual and somewhat frightening events convinces the Alden children that someone does not want them around.
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Series Volume:
0051
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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The Boxcar children uncover a mystery on a train trip from Boston to San Francisco.
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Series Volume:
0052
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On a camping trip to Arizona with their grandfather, the Alden children search for a lost gold mine.
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Series Volume:
0053
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When they help out at a guide dog training school, the Alden children meet several people who seem obsessed with a particular dog named Ginger.
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Series Volume:
0054
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While visiting a friend of their grandfather's on Sullivan's Island, off the coast of South Carolina near Charleston, the Boxcar Children encounter mysterious activities related to rumors of a buried pirate treasure.
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Series Volume:
0055
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While helping their grandfather prepare for Greenfield's Winter Festival, the Alden children uncover a mystery surrounding the statue in the town square.
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Series Volume:
0056
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The Alden children draw upon their resourcefulness to save the neighborhood firehouse from being torn down, while they also face a series of mysterious incidents connected with it.
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Series Volume:
0057
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While sightseeing in San Francisco, the Boxcar children uncover a mystery involving fishing boats and sabotage.
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Series Volume:
0058
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While sightseeing at the Alamo, the Boxcar children investigate the disappearance of a priceless ring from the Alamo museum.
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Series Volume:
0059
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The Boxcar children investigate the disappearance of a student's research paper from an observatory, and the subsequent disappearance of another student.
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Series Volume:
0060
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The Aldens are excited to be playing in their summer soccer league, until someone begins sabotaging the teams.
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Series Volume:
0061
Description:
When the Aldens visit Yellowstone they discover a map showing the way to an old cabin where gold is supposedly hidden, but they encounter lots of interference in their attempts to hike the trail.
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Series Volume:
0062
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While visiting Lake Lucille in the Adirondack Mountains, the Aldens hear stories about a monster in the lake and then encounter evidence that it may be real.
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Series Volume:
0063
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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.
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Series Volume:
0064
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While visiting their cousin's pineapple plantation in Hawaii, the Aldens hear a local legend about a black pearl with a curse on it and investigate mysterious incidents on and around the plantation.
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Series Volume:
0065
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When the Alden children set out to solve a jewelry store robbery, they find they must also deal with a mysterious thief who steals their favorite cereal.
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Series Volume:
0066
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When the Alden children and their grandfather visit Everglades National Park in Florida to solve the mystery of a missing ranger, they discover that a panther provides a clue.
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Series Volume:
0067
Average Rating:
5 stars
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The Alden children visit a family friend at his apple orchard which is rumored to be haunted, but instead of a ghost they find that some of the families' valuable antiques are being stolen.
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Series Volume:
0068
Average Rating:
5 stars
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The Aldens investigate when the new coach of their community basketball league has her Most Valuable Player trophy stolen.
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Series Volume:
0069
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
The Aldens investigate when the arrival of several suspicious characters in Greenfield coincides with a mystery involving a popular boy actor.
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Series Volume:
0070
Average Rating:
4 stars
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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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Series Volume:
0071
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While visiting a recent purchase of Grandfather's, a ghost town in the Rocky Mountains, the Aldens encounter a mystery involving a run-down motel and a woman who may be a ghost.
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Series Volume:
0072
Description:
The Alden children help out a storeowner at the Hope Harbor Mall and discover that someone is tampering with the merchandise shipments.
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Series Volume:
0073
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
The Aldens try to help a visiting Russian gymnast who is surrounded by mysterious people and events and who seems to have a secret.
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Series Volume:
0074
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
The Aldens investigate when exotic and endangered animals begin to disappear from the zoo where their new friend Lindsey works.
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Series Volume:
0075
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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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Series Volume:
0076
Average Rating:
5 stars
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The Aldens participate in a three-day bicycle ride and soon find that someone seems to be intent on keeping others from completing the event.
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Series Volume:
0077
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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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Series Volume:
0078
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While vacationing at a friend's country home, the four Alden siblings try to find a long-missing, priceless brooch and investigate the existence of a ghostly stream.
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Series Volume:
0079
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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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Series Volume:
0080
Average Rating:
1 stars
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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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Series Volume:
0081
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While visiting a small town in Alabama, the Aldens hear mysterious howls at midnight, leading them to wonder if an old local legend about a ghost dog is true.
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Series Volume:
0082
Average Rating:
5 stars
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The mystery of the star ruby: The Aldens take part in a hunt at a gem mine and discover that someone is out to sabotage the contest. The pizza mystery: 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. The radio mystery: The Alden children are helping out at a radio station, and they're going to be actors in a live mystery show....
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Series Volume:
0083
Average Rating:
5 stars
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A series of practical jokes at a restored nineteenth-century farmhouse makes the Aldens wonder if the ghost of its builder is at work.
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Series Volume:
0084
Average Rating:
3 stars
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The Aldens accompany their grandfather to his class reunion and investigate the possibility of a buried Civil War treasure, and of a ghost in the bell tower, at Goldwin University.
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Series Volume:
0085
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When the Alden children join a group of volunteers to fix up an old house for senior citizens, they try to explain the puzzling behavior of their coworkers as well as investigate some unusual events.
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Series Volume:
0086
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When the Alden children go caomping on Blizzard Mountain, a place said to be inhabited by a ghost looking for buried treasure, they begin to think someone or something is trying to scare them off.
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Series Volume:
0087
Description:
When an elderly friend is injured, the Alden children offer to help him with his window-washing business in their small town of Greenfield and agree to help him solve a riddle that has arrived in a mysterious invitation.
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Series Volume:
0088
Description:
The Boxcar Children investigate when everything seems to go wrong for the Greenfield Museum as soon as the Museum displays a four-thousand-year-old ancient Egyptian mummy.

89.  The mystery of the star ruby

 
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Series Volume:
0089
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Series Volume:
0090
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When the Aldens visit Peggy and Doc Firmin's farm, they're in for a treat: a behind-the-scenes look at a real teddy bear workshop! But a very rare and valuable bear has disappeared from the toy hospital. Now it's up to the children to track down the teddy thief!
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Series Volume:
0091
Average Rating:
5 stars
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The Alden's agree to fix up Skeleton Point, an old mansion filled with skeletons belonging to its former owner. Suddenly, valuable statues at the mansion begin to disappear. (Boxcar Children).
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Series Volume:
0092
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
The town of Greenfield is having an art contest to celebrate the work of local artists. The Boxcar Children are getting to know the artists and the gallery owner and learning all about art. But could the gallery be filled with stolen paintings?
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Series Volume:
0093
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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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Series Volume:
0094
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The Alden children help out at the Greenfield Ice Cream Barn and while learning to make ice cream and create new flavors, they help solve a mystery before the Barn gets shut down.
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Series Volume:
0095
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Someone or something is making a mysterious tapping sound at midnight in the home of a famous inventor known for her one-of-a-kind clocks. There is an invention convention taking place in the home and the Alden children are competitors at the convention. Does the mysterious tapping mean trouble for the convention? The children are determined to find out.
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Series Volume:
0096
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Four adventures of the Alden children, who once lived on their own in a boxcar.

97.  The radio mystery

 
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Series Volume:
0097
Book cover for "The mystery of the runaway ghost".
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Series Volume:
0098
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A family ghost may be back in Wisconsin! Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny discover a mystery that comes with its very own ghost story! When the children visit an old farmhouse, they learn the legend behind a painting there. Long ago, when a traveling artist painted a scene from the farm, he saw something that shouldn't have been there -- the family cow, who had run away years before. Did the artist see a ghost? And now the owner of the house has discovered...
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Series Volume:
0099
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The Alden's meighbor ,Lina, thinks there's treasure hidden in her attic, and she wants the Boxcar Children to help her find it. Of course, the children are eager to help search--but it appears they aren't the only ones looking for the treasure.
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Series Volume:
0100
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The Alden children have discovered a mystery close to home - their beloved boxcar home, that is! The old train car where they once lived is now a playhouse in their backyard.
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Series Volume:
0101
Average Rating:
2 stars
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The Aldens find themselves right in the middle of an Iowa cornfield and a brand new mystery The farm where the children are visiting is famous for its wonderful corn maze, and every year visitors come to walk through the maze and enjoy the Corn King Days festival. But the maze is being vandalized at night, and the festival is in danger of being shut down. Can the Boxcar Children catch the culprit and save the festival?

102.  The ghost of the chattering bones

 
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Series Volume:
0102
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Series Volume:
0103
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The Aldens help out at a medieval fair and try to find a valuable sword which has been stolen from the fair.
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Series Volume:
0104
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The Aldens investigate when a new store called the Game Spot opens in town and the neighboring shops are robbed.
Book cover for "The mystery of the orphan train".
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Series Volume:
0105
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The Aldens try to solve a series of mysteries which took place in a old hotel in Kansas which they visit.

106.  The vanishing passenger

 
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Series Volume:
0106
Book cover for "The giant yo-yo mystery".
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Series Volume:
0107
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When the Aldens help a friend of their grandfather's to build the world's largest yo-yo, they soon discover that more than one person is trying to prevent them from finishing the job--and for more than one reason.
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Series Volume:
0108
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The Aldens visit Grandfather's friend at the Ogopogo Retreat and aided by puzzling clues, embark on a treasure hunt to prevent the retreat from being sold.
Book cover for "The rock 'n' roll mystery".
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Series Volume:
0109
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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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Series Volume:
0110
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The Aldens investigate when an old wooden mask they have found is stolen.
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Series Volume:
0111
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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.
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Series Volume:
0112
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The Aldens investigate the rumors of ghosts, disappearing props and a haunted seat in the Trap-Door Theater.
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Series Volume:
0113
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"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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Series Volume:
0114
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The Aldens are helping out at a rescue ranch for horses. Jessie's favorite is a beautiful horse named Dragon. When Dragon and other horses disappear from the pasture, the Boxcar children must saddle up for a mystery. What's happening to the horses at the Dare To Dream Ranch?
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Series Volume:
0115
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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?
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Series Volume:
0116
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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?
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Series Volume:
0117
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The Aldens stumble upon a new mystery to investigate when they discover that the fruits and vegetables they are helping grow in a local restaurant's garden are disappearing.
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Series Volume:
0118
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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.
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Series Volume:
0119
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
When they take their dog, Watch, for obedience training, the Alden children discover that some of the dogs in the class have vanished and decide to try to solve the mystery of their disappearance.
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Series Volume:
0120
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When the Aldens agree to watch the house of a local author who has written a book about a vampire, they end up investigating activities that are suspiciously similar to those in his book.
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Series Volume:
0121
Average Rating:
5 stars
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The Alden children stumble upon a mystery when they enter their dog, Watch, in a contest that could lead to fame and fortune, but where things keep going wrong.
Book cover for "The spy in the bleachers".
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Series Volume:
0122
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
The Aldens help out at a minor league stadium and investigate when it appears someone in the ballpark is stealing the home team pitcher's signals and relaying them to the batters of the other team.
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Series Volume:
0123
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
The Boxcar Children have been choosen to compete against another team to look for clues on a game show.
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Series Volume:
0124
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
The Boxcar Children investigate a mysterious ghost with a glowing pumpkin head at a friend's farm.
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Series Volume:
0125
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
People line up around the block to buy Mama Tova's cupcakes. But who could be trying to steal her secret recipe? The Boxcar Children follow clues to a cupcake contest, where they must use their mystery-solving skills to find a thief.
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Series Volume:
0126
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
The Aldens are volunteering at the local recycling center, where they find plentyof things that can be reused, including a pinata that Benny takes home. But when the center is vandalized,the Boxcar children have a mystery to solve. is there treasure amidst the junk?
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Series Volume:
0127
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While spending two days touring a zoo to see the baby animals, the four Alden children, aged six to fourteen, help catch an escaped monkey, participate in a photography contest, and investigate a missing camera.
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Series Volume:
0128
Description:
While staying at the Winding River Lodge, the Alden siblings investigate tales of a zombie haunting a lake in the woods.
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Series Volume:
0129
Description:
The four Alden children, aged six to fourteen, uncover a mystery while volunteering at a food pantry for the needy.
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Series Volume:
0130
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"The Alden children help solve a case surrounding missing vegetables and vandalism in the community garden"--
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Series Volume:
0131
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
"The Aldens visit the shore in New Jersey and help out at an amusement pier that is rumored to be unsafe"--
Book cover for "Mystery of the fallen treasure".
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Series Volume:
0132
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During a trip to Oregon, the Aldens are astonished when Watch discovers a backpack filled with valuables, a finding that compels them to learn what happened and return the backpack to its rightful owner.
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Series Volume:
0133
Average Rating:
5 stars
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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Series Volume:
0134
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"The winter sports season is here, and the Aldens are excited about all the snow activities--especially snowboarding. But soon they find themselves in the middle of a mystery surrounding a star athlete and a stolen snowboard"--
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Series Volume:
0135
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"The Aldens are at Wildcat Crossing, a recreated frontier town full of cowboy fun. But when horses disappear and other pranks threaten to ruin the Wild West show, the Boxcar Children must find out who's the varmint causing all the trouble"--
Book cover for "The mystery of the soccer snitch".
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Series Volume:
0136
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"A talented young soccer player in Greenfield is given the honor of being a child mascot at an international soccer tournament in Brazil, but when an anonymous letter insists that she doesn't deserve to go, the Aldens investigate"--
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Series Volume:
0137
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When the Aldens visit a university campus, they must solve a mystery involving an old library whose stone gargoyles seem to move on their own.
Book cover for "The mystery of the missing pop idol".
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Series Volume:
0138
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"During auditions for the show 'Pop Star Sensation' at the local mall, one of the judges, a famous pop star, disappears, and the Aldens must find out where she went"--

139.  The mystery at the Calgary Stampede

 
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0140

140.  The Sleepy Hollow mystery

 
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0141

141.  The legend of the Irish castle

 
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0142

142.  The celebrity cat caper

 
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0143

143.  Hidden in the haunted school

 
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0144

144.  The election day dilemma

 
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0145

145.  The doughnut whodunit

 
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0146
Book cover for "The robot ransom".
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Series Volume:
0147
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Henry and Jessie's middle school robotics team is going to the regional competition! But it seems like someone doesn't want their team to compete. Can the Aldens use their sleuthing skills and what they've learned about robotics to find the culprit and save the day?

147.  The legend of the howling werewolf

 
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0148
Book cover for "The Day of the Dead mystery".
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Series Volume:
0149
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The Aldens are visiting friends for a big Dia de los Muertos celebration. The kids love learning about the holiday and helping out - that is until mysterious events threaten to ruin everyone's preparations. Can the Aldens figure out what's going on and help their friends save the celebration?
Book cover for "The hundred-year mystery".
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Series Volume:
0150
Description:
The Aldens find a hidden time capsule! Inside is a journal with clues to a treasure hunt. Who wrote the journal? And after a hundred years, can the Boxcar Children find the treasure?
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Series Volume:
0151
Description:
"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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Series Volume:
0152
Description:
When the Alden siblings visit their grandfather's friend in an apartment building, they begin to wonder about the many mysterious events that keep happening on the thirteenth floor of that building.
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Series Volume:
0153
Description:
The Aldens are visiting Port Elizabeth when a bad storm rolls in, knocking out the power--and leaving behind a mystery! Can the powered-down Aldens figure out what's going on?
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Series Volume:
0154
Description:
The Boxcar Children know how much work it takes to live in the wilderness. They also know how much fun it can be! The children love exploring and learning new things at a primitive skills summer camp. But when strange things start happening around the camp, they need to use another of their favorite skills--mystery solving!
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Series Volume:
0155
Description:
The Boxcar Children are helping a friend find out more about their family's history. But what they find is a mystery going back generations! Can the Aldens help their friend unlock secrets of the past--and present?

155.  The skeleton key mystery

 
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Series Volume:
0156

156.  Science fair sabotage

 
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Series Volume:
0157

157.  The Great Greenfield Bake-Off

 
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Series Volume:
0158

158.  The beekeeper mystery

 
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Series Volume:
0159

159.  The mystery in the magic shop

 
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0160

160.  The raptor rescue

 
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0161
Book cover for "The Boxcar children beginning".
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Series Volume:
Prequel
Description:
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.

162.  A dramatic disappearance: a Boxcar Children book

 
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