The Haunted Cabin Mystery (Boxcar Children) [Hardcover]

Gertrude Chandler Warner (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1991 | Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up | Series: Boxcar Children (Book 20)

The Alden children travel on a Mississippi paddle-wheel steamer to visit an old family friend in his cabin near Hannibal, Missouri, and try to discover who is responsible for the mysterious activities near the house.

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From the Inside Flap

The Aldens visit a friend near Hannibal, Missouri and stay in a cabin where strange things are happening, and someone seems to be trying to scare them away. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Hardcover: 121 pages
• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company (September 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0807531790
• ISBN-13: 978-0807531792
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,151,321 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A real shame, June 15, 2004

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An Amazon Guy (Boston, MA, United States of America) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Haunted Cabin Mystery (The Boxcar Children Mysteries #20) (Paperback)

This is the first of the shameful series of Boxcar Children books that were written long after the author's death. The first 19 are wonderfully written classics of children's literature. The rest, for the most part, are pointless fluff, not engaging for parents or most children. If you are reading them all to your children, and in order, they will also become very confused here: Throughout Warner's original series, the characters aged and matured quite a bit. Starting with this book, they are inexplicably returned to and perpetually stuck at their original ages.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Boxcar Children continues..., July 12, 2011

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This review is from: The Haunted Cabin Mystery: The Boxcar Children Mysteries #20 (Kindle Edition)

My active 9 year old son thoroughly enjoys this series, even with a different author, the same flavor of the books continue. The only complaint my son had was the Alden kids became young again.

4 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Haunted Cabin Mystery, December 31, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Haunted Cabin Mystery (The Boxcar Children Mysteries #20) (Paperback)

The children went to visit their grandpa's friend. He lived in a Haunted cabin! I thought it was a little scary. It was still good.