Boxcar children
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2. Surprise Island
3. The yellow house mystery
Series Volume:
0004
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
"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.
Series Volume:
0008
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
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.
11. Caboose mystery
Series Volume:
0011
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
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.
15. Bicycle mystery
Series Volume:
0015
Description:
While on a bicycle trip to their aunt's farm, the four Aldens help solve a mystery.
28. The mystery girl
Series Volume:
0028
Description:
While helping run Jerry Taylor's general store, the Alden children investigate his mysterious employee Nancy.
33. The pizza mystery
46. The chocolate sundae mystery
Series Volume:
0082
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
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....
89. The mystery of the star ruby
Series Volume:
0095
Description:
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.
97. The radio mystery
Series Volume:
0098
Description:
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...
Series Volume:
0101
Average Rating:
2 stars
Description:
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
106. The vanishing passenger
111. The Seattle puzzle
Series Volume:
0111
Description:
When the Alden children accompany their grandfather on a trip to Seattle, they discover clues throughout the city, seemingly planted just for them.
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.
114. A horse named Dragon
Series Volume:
0114
Description:
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?
Series Volume:
0115
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?
118. The spy game
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.
119. The dog-gone mystery
Series Volume:
0119
Average Rating:
5 stars
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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.
120. The vampire mystery
Series Volume:
0120
Description:
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.
121. Superstar Watch
Series Volume:
0121
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Description:
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.
125. The cupcake caper
Series Volume:
0125
Average Rating:
5 stars
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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.
Series Volume:
0126
Average Rating:
5 stars
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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?
127. Monkey trouble
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.
128. The zombie project
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.
130. The garden thief
Series Volume:
0130
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Description:
"The Alden children help solve a case surrounding missing vegetables and vandalism in the community garden"--
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.
139. The mystery at the Calgary Stampede
140. The Sleepy Hollow mystery
141. The legend of the Irish castle
142. The celebrity cat caper
143. Hidden in the haunted school
144. The election day dilemma
145. The doughnut whodunit
146. The robot ransom
Series Volume:
0147
Description:
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
Series Volume:
0149
Description:
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?
Series Volume:
0151
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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?" --
Series Volume:
0154
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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!
155. The skeleton key mystery
156. Science fair sabotage
157. The Great Greenfield Bake-Off
158. The beekeeper mystery
159. The mystery in the magic shop
160. The raptor rescue
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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.