Gertrude Chandler Warner

Four orphaned children make a home for themselves in an abandoned boxcar and are united with their grandfather.

When Benny Alden decides he wants to go into business like his grandfather, his first several attempts don't quite work out.

Collects three Boxcar Children ghost-hunting stories, including The Mystery of the Midnight Dog, in which the Aldens hear mysterious howls at midnight in a small Alabama town, leading them to wonder if a legend about a ghost dog is true.

The four Alden children, aged six to fourteen, volunteer at a new food pantry in Greenfield, but when someone moves the signs supporting the service and steels the giant turkey meant for a town dinner, the children investigate the mystery.

While staying at the Winding River Lodge, the Alden siblings investigate tales of a zombie haunting a lake in the woods.

The Aldens try out a Halloween escape room. The puzzle are fun to solve. But when eerie events start scaring people away, the children find a much bigger case to crack.

The Alden children have a home with their grandfather now, but their adventures are just beginning! The first surprise comes when they learn they'll be spending the summer on their private island. A kind stranger who lives there is always happy to help the children out, but does this new friend have a secret?

Map on endpapers. 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.

After the Alden siblings visit their Great-Aunt Jane's ranch in a mining town, there is a mysterious fire which damages three houses, but Benny's friend Mike notices a strange man in a blue hat in the paper and Mike and Benny suspect he may be the culprit.

The Alden children, who are spending the summer on a New England farm, are trying to discover who is stealing eggs from a woodshed near their farmhouse.