The Box-Car Children
Author:
Gertrude Chandler Warner
Illustrator:
Dorothy Lake Gregory
Publication:
1924 by Rand McNally & Company
Genre:
Fiction
Series:
Boxcar Children
Series Number: 1
Pages:
146
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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 are orphans. Determined to make it on their own, they set out to find a safe place to live.
They discover an old, red boxcar that provides shelter from a storm. Against all odds, they make it into their home—and become The Boxcar Children.
From the back of the 1977 Scholastic reprint
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The Boxcar Children
Reprinted in 2020 by Dover Publications
Available formats: Hardcover
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The Box-Car Children
Reviewed by Jenny Phillips
The Boxcar Children is a fun series originally published in 1942 about a group of orphaned siblings who are trying to stay together and eventually find their loving grandfather...
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The Boxcar Children Series
Reviewed by Barbara Lawrence
Parents need to know that this series begins with the book titled The Boxcar Children, which introduces the Alden children, age 14 to 6, who are orphaned and running away from their grandfather, whom they've never met but believe to be cruel...
The Boxcar Children (1942)
Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny search for a place to call home after their parents die....
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