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Author Gertrude Chandler Warner wrote the first book in what would become her “Boxcar Children” series in 1924. It would go on to spawn more than 100 books with the plucky children typically solving ...

A Book for All Kids does the same thing on a kids' scale. In every third-grade classroom throughout the city, and ideally in every home with a third-grade youngster, people will be reading this year's ...

When it comes to opening lines in children's literature, few rise to truly iconic status. The first passage ?of "The Boxcar Children," about the adventures of four children left homeless by the death ...

Anyone who read “The Boxcar Children” books in their youth probably remembers the adventures and mysteries of the dozens of later novels more than the tough circumstances the children faced in the ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — If you are the kind of person who prefers holiday entertainments to be about the values of the season rather than filled with snowmen and elves, then “The Boxcar Children” is ...