The Boxcar Children
Edition: 1st Scholastic printing
Series: Boxcar Children #1
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 1989-09
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780590426909
Copyright date: 1977
Subjects: Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories; Children's 9-12 - Fiction - Mysteries / Detective
First sentence: ONE WARM NIGHT four children stood in front of a bakery.
Description: 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!
--back cover