Paperback, 256 pages
English language
Published June 1, 1989 by Albert Whitman & Company.
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 are orphans. Determined to make it on their own, they set out to find a safe place to live.
They discover an old, red boxcar that provides shelter from a storm. Against all odds, they make it into their home-and become The Boxcar Children! --back cover
This book was one of a handful that helped me graduate from children's books. It's was kind of a young adult or tween fiction of its time, and it was easily one of the favorite books of my childhood.
