Gertrude Chandler Warner

Benny wants adventure and finds it as he and the other Alden children help uncover the plan of those who would prevent ballooning from coming to Lloyd's Landing.

While sightseeing in San Francisco, the Boxcar children uncover a mystery involving fishing boats and sabotage.

"Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live in a boxcar. Now they have adventures everywhere they go. At a lighthouse, the children find a mystery in the night!"--Back cover.

The Alden children are excited to see their friend, Mike, while visiting their aunt, but when Mike is blamed for burning his house down, the siblings want to help Mike clear his name.

While visiting a recent purchase of Grandfather's, a ghost town in the Rocky Mountains, the Aldens encounter a mystery involving a run-down motel and a woman who may be a ghost.

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 spending two days touring a zoo to see the baby animals, the four Alden children, aged six to fourteen, help catch an escaped monkey, participate in a photography contest, and investigate a missing camera.

The Children are helping out at the Greenfield Ice Cream Barn by putting up posters and creating new flavors, and they even get to ride in the ice cream wagon pulled by Butterscotch the horse, but ice cream isn't the only thing getting mixed up at the shop: someone wants to shut down the Ice Cream Barn.

When a dog training school opens in Greenfield, the Boxcar Children bring Watch in to learn some new tricks! But at the very first class, a Dalmatian goes missing — did the dog run away, or was he stolen? And when a second dog vanishes at the next class, it's clear that the Aldens have a dog-gone mystery to solve!

When their newfound treasure is stolen, the Aldens try to track down the thief who stole their Native American mask.