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The Sign Of The Twisted Candles

author: Keene, Carolyn
While solving the mystery of an old man's disappearing fortune, Nancy ends a family feud and reveals the identity of an orphan of unknown parentage.
FIC
year: 1996
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: drew, nancy (fictitious character), orphans [X], mystery and detective stories [X], drew, nancy (fictional character), mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery stories [X]

The Dog-gone Mystery

author: Warner, Gertrude Chandler
When they take their dog, Watch, for obedience training, the Alden children discover that some of the dogs in the class have vanished and decide to try to solve the mystery of their disappearance.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 520
subjects: boxcar children (fictional characters), dogs, siblings, orphans [X], mystery fiction [X], boxcar children (fictitious characters), brothers and sisters, mystery and detective stories [X], detective and mystery stories [X], pets, animals, mystery fiction

The Yellow House Mystery

author: Worley, Rob M
The Boxcar Children investigate a mystery about a rundown yellow house on Surprise Island and the man who disappeared from it.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 30
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 440

Boxcar Children

author: Denton, Shannon Eric
A graphic novel adaptation of Gertrude Chandler Warner's story in which four orphaned children, afraid to go live with their grandfather, set up housekeeping in an abandoned boxcar.
741.5
year: 2009
copies: 5
call number/section: 741.5
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Bicycle Mystery

author: Warner, Gertrude Chandler, Dunn, Joeming W
A graphic novel adaptation of the Boxcar Children mystery in which the four Aldens take shelter in an old abandoned house during a rainstorm while on a bicycle trip to their Aunt Jane's house and a lost dog finds them.
FIC
year: 1970
copies: 28
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 450

The Mystery On The Train

author: Warner, Gertrude Chandler
The Boxcar Children love exploring the train, watching the beautiful scenery from the observation car, and eating in the dining car.
FIC
year: 1996
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630
subjects: mystery fiction [X], mystery and detective stories [X], boxcar children (fictitious characters), railroads, brothers and sisters, orphans [X], boxcar children (fictional characters), siblings, railroad stories, detective and mystery stories [X], trains, railroad trains

The Mysteryof The Pirate's Map

author: Warner, Gertrude Chandler
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.
FIC
year: 1999
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630
subjects: boxcar children (fictitious characters), buried treasure, beaches, brothers and sisters, orphans [X], mystery and detective stories [X], boxcar children (fictional characters), siblings, mystery fiction [X], treasure troves, detective and mystery stories [X]

The Great Shark Mystery

author: Warner, Gertrude Chandler
The Boxcar Children rush to investigate when it appears that someone is trying to rid the Ocean Adventure Park aquarium in Florida of its main attraction--a great white shark.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 500

The Ice Cream Mystery

author: Warner, Gertrude Chandler
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.
FIC
year: 2003
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 510
subjects: boxcar children (fictitious characters), brothers and sisters, detective and mystery stories [X], orphans [X], ice cream industry, mystery and detective stories [X], boxcar children (fictional characters), siblings, mystery fiction [X]

The Mystery On Blizzard Mountain

author: Warner, Gertrude Chandler
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.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 460
subjects: ghosts, buried treasure, mountains, brothers and sisters, orphans [X], boxcar children (fictitious characters), mystery and detective stories [X], boxcar children (fictional characters), siblings, mystery fiction [X], treasure troves, detective and mystery stories [X]

The Mystery Of The Mummy's Curse

author: Warner, Gertrude Chandler
The Boxcar Children investigate when things start to go wrong for the Greenfield Museum right after the institution puts a four-thousand-year-old Egyptian mummy on display.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 500
subjects: boxcar children (fictitious characters), brothers and sisters, orphans [X], mummies, museums, mystery and detective stories [X], boxcar children (fictional characters), siblings, mystery fiction [X], detective and mystery stories [X], mystery fiction

The Mystery Of The Traveling Tomatoes

author: Warner, Gertrude Chandler
The Aldens stumble upon a new mystery to investigate when they discover that the fruits and vegetables they are helping grow in a local restaurant's garden are disappearing.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640
subjects: vegetable gardening, siblings, orphans [X], mystery fiction [X], boxcar children (fictitious characters), mystery and detective stories [X], boxcar children (fictional characters), detective and mystery stories [X], fruit, vegetables, mystery fiction

The Woodland Gang And The Indian Cave

author: Schultz, Irene
The Woodland Gang, Mrs. Tandy, and Chief Hemster help search for a hidden cave on a friend's ranch.
FIC
year: 1989
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: orphans [X], detective and mystery stories [X], mystery fiction [X], mystery and detective stories [X]

The Callender Papers

author: Voigt, Cynthia
In nineteenth-century Massachusetts, orphaned Jean, employed to sort out the family papers of a reclusive artist, becomes curious about the mysterious, long-ago death of his wife and the subsequent disappearance of their young child.
FIC
year: 2000
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: orphans [X], mystery fiction [X], massachusetts, mystery and detective stories [X], historical fiction, detective and mystery stories [X]

The Spy In The Bleachers

author: Warner, Gertrude Chandler
The Aldens are thrilled to be helping out at Cogwheel Stadium as the Clayton Cogs try to win the pennant, but when the children realize someone has stolen the team's pitching signals and given them to the other team, they set out to find the spy before he ruins the team's chance at victory.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 540

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