Boxcar children
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Boxcar children volume 1
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Four orphans take shelter in an old boxcar during a storm, and, determined to make it their own, they turn it into a safe, cozy home.
The Aldens begin their adventure by making a home in a boxcar. Their goal is to stay together, and in the process they find a grandfather.
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Boxcar children volume 2
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Four children learn the joys of independence when they are allowed to spend their summer vacation on a small island.
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Relates the exploits of the four Alden children as they locate a missing man. The Boxcar children are determined to solve the mystery that surrounds an old yellow house on their grandfather's property. Strange things have happened in that house where long ago a man disappeared.
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Boxcar children volume 5
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The entire town of Yellow Sands is left puzzled by a mysterious fire.
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Boxcar children volume 6
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The Boxcar Children are taking a vacation on an uninhabited South Seas island. They soon suspect someone else is there too, someone who maynot want them around!
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Boxcar children volume 7
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The Boxcar Children are spending the summer in an enormous New England farmhouse and the old woodshed holds a surprising secret that dates from the Revolutionary War.
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Boxcar children volume 8
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A mysterious woman, a dog barking every night at midnight, and a puzzling note in the sand all add up to a mysterious summer in a lighthouse.
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Boxcar children volume 9
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A family starts out on a one-day mountain climbing excursion that becomes very exciting. In fact, it becomes an adventure for the former "boxcar" family. They unearth some mysteries and have a fine time in the process.
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Boxcar children volume 10
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Grandpa Alden and the Alden children encounter danger, excitement, adventure, and mystery in a quiet island fishing village.
11) Caboose mystery
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Boxcar children volume 11
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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.
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Boxcar children volume 12
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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.
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Boxcar children volume 13
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A family, snowbound in a vacation cabin, discovers adventure in surrounding wild life, three children they find in the snow, and a search for a lost recipe.
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Boxcar children volume 14
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Six children help solve the mystery of a missing spyglass that has kept two brothers feuding for years.
15) Bicycle mystery
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While on a bicycle trip to their aunt's farm, the four Aldens help solve a mystery.
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Boxcar children volume 16
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A friendly writer with a metal detector, the mysterious inhabitants of a tower house, and the discovery of a locket in the sand are ingredients for the Aldens' latest mystery.
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Boxcar children volume 17
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A young Canadian visitor helps the Alden family solve a mystery involving a lost coin collection.
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Boxcar children volume 18
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The Alden children, isolated in a storm at a small bus station, are led into a mystery centering on a polluted river.
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Boxcar children volume 19
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Two brothers take summer jobs at a department store where a series of peculiar events brings them under suspicion.
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Boxcar children volume 20
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The Alden children travel on a Mississippi paddle-wheel steamer to visit an old family friend in his cabin near Hannibal, Missouri, and try to discover who is responsible for the mysterious activities near the house.
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Boxcar children volume 21
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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.
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Boxcar children volume 22
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The Alden children save an old woman's house, land, and all the animals in her animal shelter from greedy contractors.
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Boxcar children volume 23
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Someone is trying to put Aunt Jane's motel out of business, but the Alden children aren't going to let that happen.
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Boxcar children volume 24
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The Alden children hunt for their late grandmother's necklace that has been missing for years.
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Boxcar children volume 25
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The Aldens search for carousel horses that have disappeared from an amusement park.
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Boxcar children volume 26
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The Alden children investigate various mix-ups at a zoo run by their grandfather's friend in an effort to save it not only from pranksters but also from the town council.
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Boxcar children volume 27
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While on a camping trip with their grandfather, the Alden children try to find out about the loud music and missing food that threatens to scare away other campers.
28) The mystery girl
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Boxcar children volume 28
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While helping run Jerry Taylor's general store, the Alden children investigate his mysterious employee Nancy.
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Boxcar children volume 29
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While on a cruise with their grandfather, the Alden children help discover who is behind the mysterious troubles of the ship--disconnected phone lines, engine trouble, a man overboard--and still have fun sightseeing, eating, and swimming.
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Boxcar children volume 30
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At the same time that the Alden children's efforts to raise money for a new hospital wing are being sabotaged by nasty tricks, they find their attempts to befriend the new girl Beth frustrated by her strange behavior.
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Boxcar children volume 31
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While helping fix up the old house their cousins have bought, the Aldens hear stories about its being haunted and find evidence suggesting that there may be a ghost there.
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Boxcar children volume 32
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When the Alden children accompany their grandfather to the Snow Haven Lodge, a series of odd occurrences threaten to disrupt the annual winter games.
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Boxcar children volume 33
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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.
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Boxcar children volume 34
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When their grandfather arranges for them to spend two week at Sunny Oaks, the four Alden children enjoy settling into the routines of farm life but become suspicious about a mysterious horse locked in the stables.
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Boxcar children volume 35
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The Alden children suspect someone of trying to sabotage the local dog show.
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Boxcar children volume 36
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The Alden children have another mystery to solve when they visit a castle and must figure out which of the guests has stolen the Stradivarius violin.
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Boxcar children volume 37
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While visiting a Navaho Indian reservation in New Mexico, the Aldens try to save a forest under threat of development by proving it is the site of a lost, buried village, but someone is sabotaging their dig.
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Boxcar children volume 38
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While staying at a hotel in New York City, the Aldens investigate a series of annoying pranks plaguing the management and guests.
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Boxcar children volume 39
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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.
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Boxcar children volume 40
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While canoeing and backpacking near Timberwolf Lake, the Aldens receive strange warnings to stay away from the area and stumble upon clues to a missing cache of stolen coins.
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Boxcar children volume 41
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While visiting the Florida Keys, the Aldens encounter suspicious characters, strange incidents at night, and a plot to steal valuable coral.
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Boxcar children volume 42
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The mysterious disappearance of a reclusive neighbor's cat involves the Boxcar children in some complicated detective work.
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Boxcar children volume 43
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The Aldens become involved in a community theater production of "The Wizard of Oz," which is systematically and mysteriously being sabotaged.
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Boxcar children volume 44
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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.
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Boxcar children volume 45
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The Alden children are thrilled when a famous orchestra comes to their town to perform, and when an original Mozart score turns up missing, they solve the mystery of its disappearance.
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Boxcar children volume 46
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The Boxcar children investigate when ice cream and other items start disappearing from their favorite ice cream parlor.
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Boxcar children volume 47
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Benny wants adventure and finds it as he and the other Alden children help uncover the plan of those who would prevent ballooning from coming to Lloyd's Landing.
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Boxcar children volume 48
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When their grandfather buys a bookstore at auction in New Orleans, the Alden children help clean it up and discover that several people seem to be obsessed with the store and its contents.
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Boxcar children volume 49
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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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Boxcar children volume 50
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While exploring the caves around Dragon's Mouth Cavern, a series of unusual and somewhat frightening events convinces the Alden children that someone does not want them around.
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Boxcar children volume 51
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The Boxcar children uncover a mystery on a train trip from Boston to San Francisco.
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Boxcar children volume 52
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On a camping trip to Arizona with their grandfather, the Alden children search for a lost gold mine.
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Boxcar children volume 53
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When they help out at a guide dog training school, the Alden children meet several people who seem obsessed with a particular dog named Ginger.
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Boxcar children volume 54
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While visiting a friend of their grandfather's on Sullivan's Island, off the coast of South Carolina near Charleston, the Boxcar Children encounter mysterious activities related to rumors of a buried pirate treasure.
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Boxcar children volume 55
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While helping their grandfather prepare for Greenfield's Winter Festival, the Alden children uncover a mystery surrounding the statue in the town square.
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Boxcar children volume 56
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The Alden children draw upon their resourcefulness to save the neighborhood firehouse from being torn down, while they also face a series of mysterious incidents connected with it.
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Boxcar children volume 57
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While sightseeing in San Francisco, the Boxcar children uncover a mystery involving fishing boats and sabotage.
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Boxcar children volume 58
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While sightseeing at the Alamo, the Boxcar children investigate the disappearance of a priceless ring from the Alamo museum.
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Boxcar children volume 59
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The Boxcar children investigate the disappearance of a student's research paper from an observatory, and the subsequent disappearance of another student.
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Boxcar children volume 60
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The Aldens are excited to be playing in their summer soccer league, until someone begins sabotaging the teams.
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Boxcar children volume 61
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When the Aldens visit Yellowstone they discover a map showing the way to an old cabin where gold is supposedly hidden, but they encounter lots of interference in their attempts to hike the trail.
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Boxcar children volume 62
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While visiting Lake Lucille in the Adirondack Mountains, the Aldens hear stories about a monster in the lake and then encounter evidence that it may be real.
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Boxcar children volume 63
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At the request of their distant relative Althea, the Boxcar Children arrive at her old Virginia mansion and investigate the mysterious incidents happening there.
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Boxcar children volume 64
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While visiting their cousin's pineapple plantation in Hawaii, the Aldens hear a local legend about a black pearl with a curse on it and investigate mysterious incidents on and around the plantation.
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Boxcar children volume 65
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When the Aldens come across a robbery at an antique store, they decide to use their detective skills to help locate the stolen ruby ring, bracelet, and necklace. Yet, before their investigation even begins, someone breaks into the Aldens' home and steals a box of Benny's favorite Silver Frosted Star cereal! Is there a hungry thief on the loose or is something else going on? The Boxcar Children have another mystery to solve.
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Boxcar children volume 66
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When the Alden children and their grandfather visit Everglades National Park in Florida to solve the mystery of a missing ranger, they discover that a panther provides a clue.
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Boxcar children volume 67
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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.
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Boxcar children volume 68
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The Aldens investigate when the new coach of their community basketball league has her Most Valuable Player trophy stolen.
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Boxcar children volume 69
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The Aldens investigate when the arrival of several suspicious characters in Greenfield coincides with a mystery involving a popular boy actor.
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Boxcar children volume 70
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While the Aldens are visiting a friend of Grandfather's at the beach, Benny finds a long-lost piece of a map to a legendary pirate treasure, a discovery that brings unwanted attention from fortune hunters.
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Boxcar children volume 71
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While visiting a recent purchase of Grandfather's, a ghost town in the Rocky Mountains, the Aldens encounter a mystery involving a run-down motel and a woman who may be a ghost.
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Boxcar children volume 72
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The Alden children help out a storeowner at the Hope Harbor Mall and discover that someone is tampering with the merchandise shipments.
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Boxcar children volume 73
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The Aldens try to help a visiting Russian gymnast who is surrounded by mysterious people and events and who seems to have a secret.
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Boxcar children volume 74
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The Aldens investigate when exotic and endangered animals begin to disappear from the zoo where their new friend Lindsey works.
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Boxcar children volume 75
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The Aldens start a business producing birthday parties and find themselves investigating a series of robberies taking place during their parties.
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Boxcar children volume 76
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The Aldens participate in a three-day bicycle ride and soon find that someone seems to be intent on keeping others from completing the event.
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Boxcar children volume 77
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While visiting the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the Aldens see a mysterious wild horse that may be a ghost.
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Boxcar children volume 78
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The Aldens, while testing the latest version of their favorite computer game, are surprised to find messages directed specifically at them.
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Boxcar children volume 79
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While staying at the Crooked House, the family home of their housekeeper Mrs. McGregor, the Aldens try to solve a riddle that will lead them to a hidden treasure.
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Boxcar children volume 80
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When a professional hockey player comes to Greenfield with plans to build an ice skating rink, the Alden children suspect that someone in town wants to stop the project.
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Boxcar children volume 81
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While visiting a small town in Alabama, the Aldens hear mysterious howls at midnight, leading them to wonder if an old local legend about a ghost dog is true.
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Boxcar children volume 82
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The Aldens are spending a week at Camp Seagull on beautiful Claw Island. But as soon as camp begins, they realize that someone is not playing fair. Everything begins to go wrong for the Aldens — they lose their luggage, Henry misplaces the camp flag, and the campers on the other team use one of Jessie's ideas to score points for themselves. Are some campers so desperate to win the Olympics that they are willing to cheat? The Boxcar Children...
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Boxcar children volume 83
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A series of practical jokes at a restored nineteenth-century farmhouse makes the Aldens wonder if the ghost of its builder is at work.
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Boxcar children volume 84
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The Aldens accompany their grandfather to his class reunion and investigate the possibility of a buried Civil War treasure, and of a ghost in the bell tower, at Goldwin University.
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Boxcar children volume 85
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When the Alden children join a group of volunteers to fix up an old house for senior citizens, they try to explain the puzzling behavior of their coworkers as well as investigate some unusual events.
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Boxcar children volume 86
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When the Alden children go camping on Blizzard Mountain, a place said to be inhabited by a ghost looking for buried treasure, they begin to think someone or something is trying to scare them off.
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Boxcar children volume 87
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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.
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Boxcar children volume 88
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The Greenfield Museum is holding a special exhibit all about ancient Egypt, and the main attraction is a 4,000-year-old mummy! But ever since the mummy arrived, nothing's gone right for the museum or its workers. Could the spooky sarcophagus be behind all the bad luck?
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Boxcar children volume 89
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The Aldens take part in a hunt at a gem mine and discover that someone is out to sabotage the contest.
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Boxcar children volume 90
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When the Aldens visit Peggy and Doc Firmin's farm, they're in for a treat: a behind-the-scenes look at a real teddy bear workshop! But a very rare and valuable bear has disappeared from the toy hospital. Now it's up to the children to track down the teddy thief!
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Boxcar children volume 91
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Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather, and they're exploring a haunted house!
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Boxcar children volume 92
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It's time for the annual Greenfield art contest, and the Alden children are meeting the artist and learning all about art! But when they receive a mysterious message signed by the "Tattletale," they realize that not everything is as it seems. What could the Tattles want from the Aldens — and who is the mysterious message-writer? It's a painting puzzler for the Boxcar Children!
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Boxcar children volume 93
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The Alden children are searching for a rare comic book about their favorite superhero, Captain Fantastic. When they finally find the comic, they discover that Captain Fantastic has a real-life enemy. Who would want to sabotage a superhero? The Aldens will need their super power of investigation to catch this comic book culprit!
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Boxcar children volume 94
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The Alden children help out at the Greenfield Ice Cream Barn and while learning to make ice cream and create new flavors, they help solve a mystery before the Barn gets shut down.
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Boxcar children volume 95
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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.
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Boxcar children volume 96
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When the Aldens go to their favorite Chinese restaurant, Benny can't wait for the delicious fortune cookies! But when he opens his cookie, he finds a handwritten riddle! One cookie leads to another, and the Aldens soon realize they've bitten into another mystery!
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Boxcar children volume 97
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The Alden children are helping out at a radio station, and they're going to be actors in a live mystery show. But when strange things keep happening, people in town say the station is haunted. Can the Boxcar Children catch the radio ghost before the station's listeners are scared away?
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Boxcar children volume 98
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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?