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Summer vacation on an almost private island gives the Aldens a challenge. Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather and are spending the summer on their own private island. There is a mysterious stranger on the island with a secret--but that's not the only surprise in store for the Boxcar Children.

Relates the exploits of the four Alden children as they locate a missing man. The Boxcar children travel to Maine, take canoes into the wilderness and live in a house exactly like the one on Surprise Island, except the Maine house is brown, not yellow. They then untangle the mystery of the two houses.

The Alden children, isolated in a storm at a small bus station, are led into a mystery centering on a polluted river.

A family, snowbound in a vacation cabin, discovers adventure in surrounding wild life, three children they find in the snow, and a search for a lost recipe.

While on a bicycle trip to their aunt's farm, the four Aldens help solve a mystery.

When the children uncover a strange puzzle in a friend's back yard, it's the start of a "spy game" leading to gold. But first they must make sense of an old photo and a riddle, and learn just who is behind this mystery within a mystery.

The adventures of the Alden family as they ride across country in a caboose that has a strange history---or is it a mystery?

The Alden family rents a houseboat to drift down the river, and encounters a mystery in the little towns along the river, involving a fast black car.

When the Alden children accompany their grandfather to the Snow Haven Lodge, a series of odd occurrences threaten to disrupt the annual winter games.

"On a farm, the Aldens find their oldest mystery yet! Adapted from Gertrude Chandler Warner's story of the same name, this early reader allows children to start reading with a Boxcar Children classic."--