The Creepy Clues Special

The Boxcar Children investigate three eerie adventures! In The Mystery of the Stolen Sword (#67), the kids visit an apple orchard and must figure out if someone is stealing the owner's antiques or if it’s a ghost coming to reclaim what’s his. In The Vampire Mystery (#120), a local author’s vampire stories seem to be coming to life, and the Aldens must figure out who or what is haunting the local graveyard. And in Hidden in the Haunted School (#144), the kids seek to explain the strange events that are driving volunteers away as they clean up an old abandoned school.Gertrude Chandler Warner grew up in Putnam, Connecticut. She wrote The Boxcar Children because she had always dreamed about what it would be like to live in a caboose or a freight car—just as the Aldens do. When readers asked for more adventures, Warner wrote more books—a total of nineteen in all. After her death, other authors have continued to write stories about Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden, and today The Boxcar Children® series has more than one hundred books.