The Yellow House Mystery (The Boxcar Children Mysteries #3) [Hardcover]

Gertrude Chandler Warner (Author), Mary Gehr (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1953 | Grade Level: 2 and up | Series: Boxcar Children (Book 3)

The spooky old house on Surprise Island intrigues Benny.

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The spooky old house on Surprise Island intrigues Benny.

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.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company (January 1, 1953)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0807593656
• ISBN-13: 978-0807593653
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #250,476 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Alden children go camping and solve a mystery, October 19, 2006

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Jeanne Tassotto (Trapped in the Midwest) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Yellow House Mystery (The Boxcar Children, No. 3) (Boxcar Children Mysteries) (Paperback)

In this third entry in the Boxcar Children series the Alden children (Henry 16, Jessie 14, Violet 12 and Benny 7), ask their grandfather about the mysterious yellow house on their island. He tells them a story about the long missing Bill McGregor, husband of the family housekeeper. The children and their cousin Joe and his new bride Alice decide to locate the missing man when they uncover an overlooked clue to his whereabouts. The six set out to Maine following the clue and along the way have many adventures.

This book was originally written in 1953 by a teacher who combined a basic vocabulary and exciting storyline in order to entice young readers. Her formula was and is a great success. To an adult the mysteries involved are rather simplistic, the situations more than a little unrealistic and the characters quite wooden but to the children the stories are written for these are exciting stories with thrilling adventures around every twist and turn. Just the thing to get a reluctant reader inspired to read for fun.

In the early sixties one of my teachers kept our 5th grade class entralled by reading to us the last few minutes of each day. The Boxcar Children were always a popular choice, the short cliffhanger style chapters kept us anxiously waiting for the next reading and stirred up more than a few schoolyard discussions on what might happen next. It inspired me to go canoe camping in the northwoods years later and share that adventure and The Boxcar Children with my children.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I have never forgotten the book, neither will my kids., October 18, 1999

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This review is from: The Yellow House Mystery (The Boxcar Children, No. 3) (Boxcar Children Mysteries) (Paperback)

When I was a child, I had a very hard time concentrating on reading. That was untill my mom entroduced me to the Box car children. I have never forgotten about those kids. It is my favorite child hood story. I always wished that I had have my own box car to go to. I think it the best fantasy land any child could ever enter.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SUCH A GOOD BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!! my name is abby, January 22, 2011

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This review is from: The Yellow House Mystery: The Boxcar Children Mysteries #3 (Kindle Edition)

WOOOOOOOOW such a good book I can't wait to read the next one and the next and so on ........i am speechless it was so great