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When the town opens a new recycling center, the Alden siblings—aged six to fourteen—offer their help. Together they patrol the facility, spotting evidence of nightly break‑ins and disorderly acts. The children work to uncover who is responsible and restore order to their community’s hub of waste recycling.
First publish date: 2011
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Gertrude Chandler Warner
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