The Aldens' boxcar is the perfect place for games, picnics, sleepovers, and fun, but when strange things start happening there, Benny is convinced that the boxcar is haunted.

Told in dual perspectives through unsent letters, this heartbreaking novel follows 17-year-old twins Storm and Lake, separated in the foster care system, as they each take different paths-one incarcerated and one living on the streets-and fight to find their way back to each other.

The Aldens investigate when the new coach of their community basketball league has her Most Valuable Player trophy stolen.

Despite the harsh treatment he has endured at the Lovell House orphanage, ten-year-old Gib Whittaker manages to maintain his hopeful outlook when he is "farmed out" to help with the horses of a wealthy banker in 1908.

The Boxcar children have dinner at a Chinese restaurant and get a handwritten riddle in a fortune cookie! One riddle leads to another, and the children wonder who is leaving them the cookie clues, and why?

Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially of what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the Unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead.

When her parents, the great marine scientists Dr. and Dr. Quail, are killed in a tragic accident, eleven year old Fidelia Quail is racked by grief. But she is forced out of her mourning when she's kidnapped by Merrick the Monstrous, a pirate whose list of crimes stretches longer than a ribbon eel. Her task? Use her marine know-how to retrieve his treasure, lost on the ocean floor. As Fidelia and the pirates close in on the prize, with the navy hot...

A twelve-year-old orphan who possesses a stone that brings good luck to its owner runs afoul of a terrifying half-demon, but finds an ally in the elf Drizzt Do'Urden.

When the Aldens go to the Pickering Natural History Museum to assist with the opening of a dinosaur exhibit, their work is hampered by a series of mysterious happenings.

The Aldens accompany their grandfather to his class reunion and investigate the possibility of a buried Civil War treasure, and of a ghost in the bell tower, at Goldwin University.