Lamar Public Library

The Boxcar Children are spending the summer in an enormous New England farmhouse and the old woodshed holds a surprising secret that dates from the Revolutionary War.

The Aldens' dog, Watch, comes across a box with a note inside and soon the children are looking all over town for cleverly hidden boxes.

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 untangle the mystery of the two houses. Relates the exploits of the four Alden children as they locate a missing man. The Boxcar children are determined to solve the mystery that surrounds an old yellow house on their grandfather's property. Strange things have happened...

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

Bad luck hits the Greenfield Museum with the addition of an ancient mummy exhibit. Annotation. The Aldens are helping the museum curator set up an exhibit about life in ancient Egypt. But the longer the Aldens are around the exhibit's mummy, the more things go wrong. Has the museum been struck by a curse from the ancient mummy? Illustrations.

The Alden children find a mysterious painting hidden in their grandfather's attic.

When an elderly friend is injured, the Alden children offer to help him with his window-washing business in their small town of Greenfield and agree to help him solve a riddle that has arrived in a mysterious invitation.

"The Aldens spend the summer on Grandfather's island! Joe, the island's friendly handyman, helps them with anything they need, but as the children continue to explore their summer home, they realize there is more to the island--and to their new friend--than meets the eye."--Publisher's description.

Collects three dog-themed Boxcar mysteries, including "The Mystery at the Dog Show," the "Guide Dog Mystery," and "The Mystery of the Midnight Dog," in which the Aldens have experiences at a dog contest and a service dog school, and encounter a ghost dog in a haunted town in North Carolina.