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The Alden family rents a houseboat to drift down the river, and encounters a mystery in the little towns along the river, involving a fast black car.

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A mystery on a houseboat? Sure! That actually sounds like a really fun vacation.

Grandfather's still just throwing his money around (what does he even do for work anyways?) and the kids are impressively meddlesome. But you know what? It works.

The idea that the entire mystery revolves around someone who happens to have a key to the houseboat and they happen to hide something on it, rather than just running, and no one talks to anyone else... It's a really thin plot. But it works, barely.
The Alden family rents a houseboat to drift down the river, and encounters a mystery in the little towns along the way.
The boxcar children take a houseboat trip up and down a river and encounter a series of mysteries. The mysteries include frightened people, underfed horses, a valuable stolen vase, and a black car. The boxcar children must figure out how these things are connected, and plan a way to help catch the criminals in action.
Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are spending a vacation traveling do11/14/2008 wn the river on a houseboat. Throughout their journey, the Boxcar Children have the feeling they're being watched.
I have books 1 12 and 13 of this series

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Gertrude Chandler Warner was born in Putnam, Connecticut on April 16, 1890. Due to her poor health, she never finished high school and studied with a tutor. During World War I, a shortage of teachers prompted the local school board to hire her to teach first grade, a position she held for over 30 years. She wrote the first Boxcar book in 1924, show more while home recuperating from an illness, but the version most people are familiar with was originally published in 1942. The Alden children became so popular that she wrote 19 adventures about them including Surprise Island, Mystery Ranch, and Snowbound Mystery. She died at age 89 August 29, 1979, but the Boxcar Children are still being written about by a team of writers faithful to her vision. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Cunningham, David (Illustrator)

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Canonical title
Houseboat Mystery
Original publication date
1967
People/Characters
Benny Alden; Henry Alden; Jessie Alden; Violet Alden
Disambiguation notice
ISBNs 0807533955 / 1616411244 / 1616415231 / 1306236711
are graphic versions of the book.
ISBN 0807534129 is NOT a graphic book.


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Fiction and Literature
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813Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English
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PZ7 .W244 .HLanguage and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresJuvenile belles lettres
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