The Boxcar Children
Edition: 1st Scholastic printing
Series: Boxcar Children, #1; Alden Family Mysteries
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 1989-09
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780590426909
Copyright date: 1977
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
Table of contents: title: [I.] The four hungry children --; title: [II.] Night is turned into day --; title: [III.] A new home in the woods --; title: [IV.] Henry has two surprises --; title: [V.] The explorers find treasure --; title: [VI.] A queer noise in the night --; title: [VII.] A big meal from little onions --; title: [VIII.] A swimming pool at last --; title: [IX.] Fun in the cherry orchard --; title: [X.] Henry and the free-for-all --; title: [XI.] The doctor takes a hand --; title: [XII.] James Henry and Henry James --; title: [XIII.] A new home for the boxcar.