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Boxcar children (Fictitious characters) Fiction Boxcar children (Fictitious characters) Juvenile fiction Brothers and sisters Fiction Brothers and sisters Juvenile fiction Families Juvenile fiction Family secrets Fiction Mystery and detective stories Orphans Orphans Fiction Orphans Juvenile fictionSnicket, Lemony.
Summary: In the perilous Mortmain mountains, Klaus and Violet Baudelaire meet another well-read person, who helps them try to rescue Sunny from the villainous Count Olaf and his henchmen as they all near "the last safe place."
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2003
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SNICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SNIWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: When their favorite author fails to arrive as scheduled to speak at the local library, the Alden children investigate how he could board a train and never be seen again.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARSnicket, Lemony.
Summary: Accidents, evil plots, and general misfortune abound when, in their continuing search for a home, the Baudelaire orphans are sent to live and work in a sinister lumber mill.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Children's Audio 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SNIWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: People line up around the block to buy Mama Tova's cupcakes. But who could be trying to steal her secret recipe? The Boxcar Children follow clues to a cupcake contest, where they must use their mystery-solving skills to find a thief.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Co. 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: A collection of Boxcar children stories.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2019
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Summary: When the Alden children accompany their grandfather to the Snow Haven Lodge, a series of odd occurrences threaten to disrupt the annual winter games.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 1992
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARWoodson, Jacqueline.
Summary: Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War. A companion to the Woodson's other book entitled: Locomotion
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2009
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC WOOWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: Mystery of the lost mine: On a camping trip to Arizona with their grandfather, the Alden children search for a lost gold mine.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Oasis Audio 2015
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Summary: The Boxcar Children investigate a mysterious ghost with a glowing pumpkin head at a friend's farm.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARWatson, Jude.
Summary: A clue takes Amy and Dan Cahill to Egypt, where they investigate the origins of the rivalry between the Tomas and Ekaterina branches of their family and try to figure out if they can trust a message from their dead grandmother Grace.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC THIWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: The Aldens try to solve a series of mysteries which took place in an old hotel in Kansas which they visit.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Co. 2005
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Summary: The Aldens investigate when a new store called the Game Spot opens in town and the neighboring shops are robbed.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 1994
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Summary: Amy and Dan cross the oceans on the trail of a famous aviator, but they find more than they're looking for. Their enemies are becoming more vicious, and the truths they discover more crushing than ever.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC THICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC CLUWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 1968
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: Two brothers take summer jobs at a department store where a series of peculiar events brings them under suspicion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 1976
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: A young Canadian visitor helps the Alden family solve a mystery involving a lost coin collection.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: A. Whitman 1973
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Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WARWarner, Gertrude Chandler
Summary: "Siblings Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live in a boxcar. Now they have adventures everywhere they go. What secrets will the children find on their very own island?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2018
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Summary: 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE WARAlender, Katie
Summary: The other orphans say Margot is lucky. Lucky to survive the horrible accident that killed her family. Lucky to have her own room because she wakes up screaming every night. And finally, lucky to be chosen by a prestigious family to live at their remote country estate. But it wasn't luck that made the Suttons rescue Margot from her bleak existence at the group home. Margot was handpicked to be a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALENelson, Theresa
Summary: In St. Louis, Missouri, in 1911, orphaned eleven-year-old Julia Delaney rails against countless disappointments and the nun's strict rules at the House of Mercy, especially after her sister Mary turns fourteen and must leave, but she, her family, and best friend get tangled up with a gangster and a decade-old mystery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC NELPayne, Melissa
Summary: "Orphaned at a young age and witness to her brother's decline into addiction, Nora Martinez has every excuse to question the fairness of life. Instead, the openhearted librarian in the small Colorado community of Silver Ridge sees only promise. She holds on to the hope that she'll be reunited with her missing brother and does what she can at the town library. It's her home away from home, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2021