Gertrude Chandler Warner

First published in 1924, "The Box-Car Children" is the beloved children's classic by American grade school teacher and author, Gertrude Chandler Warner. It is the story of four orphaned siblings, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny, and their adventures living in an abandoned boxcar in the forest. The children are having fun while living in the boxcar at first, though several adults in the community are aware of their situation and are keeping an eye...

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.

The Alden children discover another mystery when the agree to help injured Mr. Yee tend to his plot in the community garden and find out that vegetables are going missing and plots are being vandalized.

When strange mishaps occur while the Boxcar Children are helping to harvest honey at a farm owned by one of their grandfather's friends, the children set out to investigate whether someone is trying to ruin the harvest.

When the Alden siblings go camping on Padre Island, they help save a rare type of sea turtle from a mysterious sabotager.

Six children help solve the mystery of a missing spyglass that has kept two brothers feuding for years.

When a local antique shop owner loses his memory after an accident, the Alden siblings help piece together the man's past to uncover who is holding a grudge against him.

The Aldens become involved in a community theater production of "The Wizard of Oz," which is systematically and mysteriously being sabotaged.

When Benny and Henry get summer jobs at a department store in town, they don't expect to be solving mysteries at work. But when an expensive vase disappears, the salespeople receive strange notes, and the jewelry display is tampered with, it's up to Benny to uncover the truth!