Customer Reviews

Mike's Mystery (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Boxcar Children (Pb))

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

WHAT A BORE! I don't know if Ive read a more boring book! LIke I said such a disappointment! YOU KNOW WHY YOU CAN GET THIS BOOK USED FOR ONE PENNY AND YOU KNOW WHY THE WANT TO GET RID OF THIS BOOK AND IF YOU BY THIS BOOK YOU'LL BE SORRY YOU DID! THEY MADE SOME SILLY KID THAT WAS BENNY'S FRIEND AND THEY ALWAYS GOT IN AN ARGUMENT ABOUT THE KID'S BAD GRAMMER! IT WAS RIDICULOUS HOW WEIRD THIS BOOK WAS! SO DON'T READ THIS BOOK THAT'S THE BOTTOM LINE!

ISBN 0807551414 - The Boxcar Children series became a quick favorite for me when I discovered them - decades after their first publication! The language is a bit stilted, I assume that's partially because the books were written in the 1950s and 1960s and people simply spoke more correctly.

The children return to the ranch they own to visit Aunt Jane and see all the changes that have taken place in the past year. The first person they run into is Mike Wood, a boy they met on Surprise Island. Benny and Mike immediately take to bickering with one another again, but they're all on the same side when Mike's house is burned to the ground. It appears to be arson and a rumor starts that Mike was the cause of the fire, but the children know better - and they want to catch the man who did it before he causes even more destruction.

It's nice to see that the author has connected two previous books (Surprise Island (Boxcar Children) and Mystery Ranch (Boxcar Children)) to this one, for the continuity and because kids will enjoy recognizing characters beyond the Alden children. Illustrations by Dirk Gringhuis are nice, not spectacular. For funny, and one thing kids might miss, there's some astonishment that the kids are being picked up at the train station by Maggie, driving a car, as if cars - and women driving them! - are very unusual. The copyright is 1960, so they probably were less common, but it's still amusing. Mike's Mystery shares a message about helping others, as well as being fun entertainment. RL3, ages 7-12.

- AnnaLovesBooks

This, along with The Woodshed Mystery, was my favourite book (not just Boxcar Children, but books in general) for some time. It brings back to life the definite promise of adventure from the third book that slumbered through the fourth, and is one of the most well-laid-out and realistic of the series. At least I've always thought so. :)

We met Mike in "Surprise Island", and here he is back again in the little town that has sprung up around the Aldens' uranium mines. But when his house burns down suspiciously, a mystery follows. I think much of the reason I liked this so much was because the two youngest children, Benny and Mike, were really the main ones solving the mystery, with a bit of help here and there from the elder ones.

Definitely give your children this book. I know they will love it.

In "Mike's Mystery" the four Alden children return to the ranch to visit Aunt Jane. To their surprise, they meet Mike Wood, the boy introduced in "Surprise Island", and of course Benny (the youngest) and Mike immediately take to fighting with each other.

But the fighting stops when Mike's house burns to the ground - apparently from arson. Rumors start to fly that it was Mike who caused the fire. The children know that couldn't be true, and set out to find the real arsonist. A dangerous, and potentially life-threatening pursuit.

KINDLE: This is a perfect book for reading on the Kindle. The illustrations are black and white originally, so on the device they are just as clean and crisp.

This is one of my favorites. I love all of Gertrude Chandler Warner's books about the Boxcar Children and having the children being the "heroes" is something children love to read. I was constantly putting myself into the story.

Every Boxcar Children story contains a mystery - and what could be more fun than adventure, danger and intrigue?

One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one where they had come from. 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 out west on Mystery Ranch. The excitement begins when they meet their old friend, Mike. When Mike is blamed for starting a fire, the Boxcar Children know he's innocent. But can they discover who's really behind Mike's Mystery-before it's too late? I really enjoyed this book there is a lot of mystery in this book. I think that this book is definitely worth reading. "The four Alden children could hardly wait to get back to Mystery Ranch." That's probably the only thing about the book that I don't like. Which is those fake names of ranches or towns or something like that.

This book was a great book. When Mike's house burns down the Alden children hear a rumor that Mike burned his own house down! But the Alden children know he didn't do it. The only reason why I didn't like it is because they only mentioned Snowball once, and I LOVE HORSES and all other animals.

Great chapter book for young readers. The chapters are not too short and not too long. My son had a hard time putting the book down. Each chapter left him in suspense, wanting to read more.

This book is about four children named Henry,Jessie,Violet,and Benny that help their friend named Mike find out who set his house on fire.They think a man in a blue hat did it but they're not sure.See if you can follow the clues to find out who did it.