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Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Henry, Jessie, Vioet and Benny Alden are brothers and sisters - and tehy're orphans. The only way they can stay together is to make it on their own. One night, during a storm, the children find an old red boxcar that keeps them warm and safe. They decide to make it their home.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The children and their grandfather spend the summer traveling on a train--in their own caboose.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 43
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
1994.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The Aldens become involved in a community theater production of "The Wizard of Oz," which is systematically and mysteriously being sabotaged.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 87
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 44
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
1995.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 42
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
1994.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The mysterious disappearance of a reclusive neighbor's cat involves the Boxcar children in some complicated detective work.
7) Heidi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Heidi is only five when she is taken to live with her grandfather, known as Uncle Alp, in the Swiss Mountains. Notorious in the village for his gloomy outlook and reclusive nature, Uncle Alp nevertheless comes to love little Heidi, and she him. Just as Heidi begins to grow fond of her new mountain family and friends, she is suddenly taken to Frankfurt to be a companion to Clara, an invalid. Although she brings great joy into Clara's life, Heidi pines...
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The Boxcar Children's friend Mike is wrongly accused of starting a fire. Can they discover who is really behind Mike's mystery?
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 55
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
While helping their grandfather prepare for Greenfield's Winter Festival, the Alden children uncover a mystery surrounding the statue in the town square.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 82
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Boxcar Children go to summer camp, where they suspect that someone is cheating during the Camp Olympics. One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them no one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather, and they're spending a week at Camp Seagull on beautiful Claw Island. When they arrive at Camp Seagull, the Alden children...
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 91
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
While Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny help a friend fix up an old mansion filled with skeletons belonging to the doctor who once lived there, statues begin disappearing from the mansion grounds and a walking skeleton may be the culprit.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young Canadian visitor helps the Alden family solve a mystery involving a lost coin collection.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 97
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are actors in a live mystery show being broadcast on an old-fashioned AM radio station. But that's not the only mystery the Boxcar children are part of—it's starting to look like the radio station is haunted!
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 73
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 67
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
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.
17) Bicycle mystery
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
While on bicycle trip to their aunt's farm, the four Aldens help solve a mystery.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 68
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The Aldens investigate when the new coach of their community basketball league has her Most Valuable Player trophy stolen.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 98
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When the Aldens visit their friend Fran in Wisconsin, they can't wait to hear her tell the story of the runaway ghost. Fran's family ghost hasn't been spotted in years, but the Aldens still shiver at the spooky tale of the ghost's bell clanging after dark. Then Violet hears a mysterious ringing in the middle of the night and the children start to wonder--could the runaway ghost be back?
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 49
Publisher
A. Whitman & Co
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
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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