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The Mystery of the Midnight Dog - The Boxcar Children Mysteries Gertrude Chandler Warner
The Mystery of the Midnight Dog - The Boxcar Children Mysteries
Gertrude Chandler Warner
Jacket Description/Back: One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather, and they're vacationing in North Carolina!When the Aldens first arrive in Elbow Bend, they meet Kate Frances, who tells them all sorts of ghost stories about the town! The scariest tale is about a ghost dog who howls at midnight and appears to warn people of danger! The Aldens think it is just a story until they hear dogs all over Elbow Bend howling at midnight. Does the ghost dog really exist or is someone playing a trick on them? The Boxcar Children are determined to find out. Jacket Description/Flap: Benny sees a ghostly white dog in a small town called Elbow Bend. Brief Description: While visiting a small town in Alabama, the Aldens hear mysterious howls at midnight, leading them to wonder if an old local legend about a ghost dog is true. Publisher Marketing: The Aldens are visiting Grandfather's good friend, Mrs. Wade, in a small town called Elbow Bend. According to Mrs. Wade's granddaughter, the town has many ghost tales and there is a favorite tale concerning a dog.
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.
128 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | 2001 |
| ISBN13 | 9780807554760 |
| Publishers | Random House Children's Books |
| Genre | Theometrics > Secular |
| Pages | 128 |
| Dimensions | 133 × 194 × 10 mm · 113 g |