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The Box-Car Children
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Series: Dover Children's Evergreen Classics
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ISBN10: 0486843386
ISBN13: 9780486843384
Publisher: Dover Pubn Inc
Published: Jun 17 2020
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780486843384
Publisher: Dover Pubn Inc
Published: Jun 17 2020
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
Four orphans -- Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny -- discover an abandoned boxcar and move in, embarking on a life of self-reliance and hard work. They also enter a world of freedom and adventure. When Violet falls ill, they're forced to take her to a doctor, even though they'll risk losing their independence by getting a grown-up involved.
Gertrude Chandler Warner read this story to her students and rewrote it many times to make sure that it would be both engaging and easy to read. The Box-Car Children was so successful that she published 18 sequels. Warner noted that the book raised a storm of protest from librarians who thought the children were having too good a time without any parental control! That is exactly why children like it! Ranked among the all-time Top 100 Chapter Books in a School Library Journal survey, The Box-Car Children is also among the National Education Association's Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children.
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