Gertrude Chandler Warner

The Deserted Library Mystery Gertrude Chandler Warner

Brief Description: At an old library, the Alden children discover a boy who needs their help and a stranger who is after a valuable object they found in the library. Brief Description: Someone is trying to destroy an old library in a nearby village. The children try to find out who the culprit is. Brief Description: The Boxcar Children are helping to save an old library that's about to be torn down. They find several mysteries there--and not just in books! After all the children's hard work, someone is trying to destroy the library. Who?Jacket Description/Flap: The children try to clean up and old library so it can receive landmark status, but someone else tries to stop them. Review Citations:

Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/1992 (EAN 9780807515600, Paperback)

Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/1992 (EAN 9780807515617, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Warner, Gertrude Chandler Gertrude Chandler Warner was born in 1890 in Putnam, Connecticut, where she taught school and wrote The Boxcar Children because she had often imagined how delightful it would be to live in a caboose or freight car. Encouraged by its success, she went on to write eighteen more stories about the Alden Children.