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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 traveling on a train--in their own caboose, Number 777. On the trip, they encounter a strange mystery surrounding the history of their caboose!

"The winter sports season is here, and the Aldens are excited about all the snow activities--especially snowboarding. But soon they find themselves in the middle of a mystery surrounding a star athlete and a stolen snowboard"--

The Boxcar children investigate when ice cream and other items start disappearing from their favorite ice cream parlor.

When the Boxcar children help out in a local garden, they dig up one strange thing after another! First, the tomato plants seem to move every day. Find out how that can be.

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

The Boxcar Children are spending the summer on Mystery Ranch with their grandfather. The excitement begins when they meet their old friend, Mike. When Mike is blamed for starting a fire, the Boxcar Children must solve the mystery.

While on a cruise with their grandfather, the Alden children help discover who is behind the mysterious troubles of the ship--disconnected phone lines, engine trouble, a man overboard--and still have fun sightseeing, eating, and swimming.

While canoeing and backpacking near Timberwolf Lake, the Aldens receive strange warnings to stay away from the area and stumble upon clues to a missing cache of stolen coins.

The Alden children have another mystery to solve when they visit a castle and must figure out which of the guests has stolen the Stradivarius violin.

While visiting the seaport town of Ragged Cove, Massachusetts, the Alden children find the ship's log of the Flying Cloud, shipwrecked in 1869, supposedly during a mutiny.