Caboose Mystery (Boxcar Children #11) [Paperback]

Gertrude Chandler Warner (Author), David Cunningham (Illustrator)

Book Description

Grade Level: 2 and up

A trip in a caboose at the end of a freight train leads to an old clown and a search.

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A trip in a caboose at the end of a freight train leads to an old clown and a search.

About the Author

Gertrude Chandler Warner was born in Putnam, Connecticut, on April 16, 1890, to Edgar and Jane Warner. Her family included a sister, Frances, and a brother, John. From the age of five, she dreamed of becoming an author. She wrote stories for her Grandfather Carpenter, and each Christmas she gave him one of these stories as a gift. Today, Ms. Warner is best remembered as the author of The Boxcar Children Mysteries.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company; Reprint edition (January 1, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0807510092
• ISBN-13: 978-0807510094
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #70,724 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #4 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Children's Books > Series > Mystery & Detective > The Boxcar Children
  • #4 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Children's Books > Arts & Music > Performing Arts > Circus

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good mystery for young teens..., September 12, 2009

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Dr. Bob (St. Louis, MO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: THE BOXCAR CHILDREN- CABOOSE MYSTERY (Paperback)

I was making a postage stamp exhibit on "Cabooses Uses" and found that the railway caboose was used for a variety of items including as a setting for young persons' literature. I wanted to know of other uses of cabooses including art, literature and advertising. This story met those goas and I read this story that has a mystery inside of it to get the feel for riding in a caboose as a young person. The author actually took a ride on a caboose and did many of the items described in this fiction story. The work is part of the author's "Boxcar Mysteries" series about railroads. It was great and very truthful about cabooses and how they were used on freight trains. While it is designed for the young reader it is very easy to read at a lower but not insulting level. It even has the typical younger brother who gets into trouble and misses the train as it gets ready to go on its way. He is picked up later on a return trip after being found in the woods by another youth.

A grandfather took his grandchildren on a week-long ride in a caboose and this is the setting for the story. There are really two cabooses, one for the girls and one for the boys in this adventure. Both do some funny things but yet very realistic. Many trainmen riding in a caboose would do similar somewhat strange things while in a caboose. They cook their own meals, meet with the Conductor, Engineer and trainmen and even get a chance to run the engine in a very realistic setting.

Since their main caboose had been used in a circus a mystery emerges when a diamond bracelet is discovered in the "cupola". All try to discover how it ended up hidden in a caboose. It is a very interesting story and verified what I learned about how cabooses were used in freight trains for over one hundred years of railroading in the U.S. They are now disappearing from the rails but did you see one on that train that just went by?

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for my 9 year old daughter, November 30, 2008

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D. Spaulding (Louisville, KY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Caboose Mystery (Boxcar Children #11) (Paperback)

My 9 year old daughter loves this books and the whole series. She gets so excited when they arrive, she can hardly wait to start reading each new one.
Thanks!

4.0 out of 5 stars THE BOXCAR CHILDREN, THE CABOOSE MYSTERY, April 25, 2011

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J. A. Vaught "jasmine a bloomin" (San Francisco) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Caboose Mystery (Boxcar Children #11) (Paperback)

These books are memory making adventures that most kids seem to fall into. I read a few of them as a child, but I don't remember them being a series of mysteries. The girls I care for (6 yr. old twins) totally fell in love with them. I ordered used copies and they arrived quickly and in fairly good shape. The only problem encountered was the binding in one of the books is so old the pages are falling out. That is not anyone's fault, so no worries on this end. We will continue to purchase them as we read through the series.