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Overview
Four orphans -- Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny -- discover an abandoned boxcar and move in, embarking on a life of self-reliance and hard work. They also enter a world of freedom and adventure. When Violet falls ill, they're forced to take her to a doctor, even though they'll risk losing their independence by getting a grown-up involved.
Gertrude Chandler Warner read this story to her students and rewrote it many times to make sure that it would be both engaging and easy to read. The Box-Car Children was so successful that she published 18 sequels. Warner noted that the book "raised a storm of protest from librarians who thought the children were having too good a time without any parental control That is exactly why children like it " Ranked among the all-time "Top 100 Chapter Books" in a School Library Journal survey, The Box-Car Children is also among the National Education Association's "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children."
Details
- ISBN-13: 9780486843384
- ISBN-10: 0486843386
- Publisher: Dover Publications
- Publish Date: June 2020
- Dimensions: 7.8 x 5 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.2 pounds
- Page Count: 160
- Reading Level: Ages 7-10
