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During a family dinner at a local Chinese restaurant, Benny Alden eagerly anticipates his dessert. When he cracks open his fortune cookie, he finds no fortune—just a handwritten riddle that sets a mystery in motion. Joined by his brothers and sisters, the Boxcar Children must decipher clues and solve the puzzle before the secrets it contains escape them.
First publish date: January 2003
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Gertrude Chandler Warner
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