Books like The Boxcar Children Beginning - The Aldens of Fair Meadow Farm by Patricia MacLachlan
In the year before they become the Boxcar children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden live with their parents at Fair Meadow Farm, where they take in a family who has been stranded in their car during a blizzard. The parents and siblings of the Alden children work to care for the new family, who becomes the first of a series of friends and family members that eventually leads to the Boxcar Children becoming the world's first child detectives.
First publish date: 2012
Genre: Children's Fiction/Children's Adventure
Authors: Patricia MacLachlan
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