The Boxcar Children
By: by Gertrude Chandler Warner ; illustrated by L. Kate Deal.
Edition: printing (109)
Series: The boxcar children -- #1
Publisher: Albert Whitman
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780807508527
Copyright date: 1977
Subjects: Mystery and detective stories.; Orphans -- Fiction.; Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.; Mystery -- Fiction.; Railroads -- Cars -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
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!
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Notes: US/CAN
Table of contents: title: Four hungry children --; title: Night is turned into day --; title: New home in the woods --; title: Henry has two surprises --; title: Explorers find treasure --; title: Queer noise in the night --; title: Big meal from little onions --; title: Swimming pool at last --; title: Fun in the cherry orchard --; title: Henry and the free-for-all --; title: Doctor takes a hand --; title: James Henry and Henry James --; title: New home for the boxcar.