Gertrude Chandler Warner

"Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden are orphans looking for a place to live together as a family. Could a boxcar in the woods be their new home?"--

The Boxcar Children are spending the summer in an enormous New England farmhouse. Near the house there is an old woodshed that holds a surprising secret that dates from the Revolutionary War.

The Aldens' friend Max says nothing interesting happens in Port Elizabeth. But when the children visit the small fishing village and come across a man snooping around the local library, they prove that every town has its mysteries.

Four young people find a lost pedigreed dog on a bicycle trip and, while trying to find its home, run into dog thieves.

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 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.

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

The Alden children, isolated in a storm at a small bus station, are led into a mystery centering on a polluted river.

The Boxcar children investigate when ice cream and other items start disappearing from their favorite ice cream parlor.

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.