Gertrude Chandler Warner

The Garden Thief Gertrude Chandler Warner

Jacket Description/Flap: The Alden children help solve a case surrounding missing vegetables and vandalism in the community garden. Marc Notes: ; The Alden children help solve a case surrounding missing vegetables and vandalism in the community garden--; Provided by publisher. . Publisher Marketing: Grandfather's friend, Mr. Yee, has broken his arm and can't tend to his beloved vegetable plot in the community garden. The Alden children gladly offer their services to help him with his prize-winning veggies. But they soon learn something mysterious is afoot at the community garden. Vegetables go missing, and it appears someone is intentionally vandalizing the garden plots. Luckily for the local community gardeners, the Boxcar Children are on the case! Review Citations:

School Library Journal 05/01/2012 pg. 122 (EAN 9780807527511, Hardcover)

School Library Journal 05/01/2012 pg. 122 (EAN 9780807527528, Paperback)

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.