Orem Library

A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.

2) The yellow house mystery

Author

Series

Boxcar children mysteries volume 3
The Boxcar Children
Time to Read Level 2

Language

English

Formats

Description

The Warner children are determined to solve the mystery that surrounds a yellow house on their grandfather's property.

3) Train to somewhere

Author

Bunting, Eve

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

In the late 1800s, Marianne travels westward on the orphan train in hopes of being placed with a caring family.

4) Blue Bay mystery

Author

Series

Boxcar children mysteries volume 6
The Boxcar Children
Time to Read Level 2

Language

English

Formats

Description

The Aldens find a castaway on a South Sea island. How did he get there and who is he?

5) The woodshed mystery

Author

Series

Boxcar children mysteries volume 7
The Boxcar Children
Time to Read Level 2

Language

English

Formats

Description

A double puzzle involves an old friend of Aunt Jane's, romance, and a chase.

6) One dark and dreadful night

Author

Cecil, Randy

Publisher

Holt

Pub. Date

2004.

Language

English

Description

Maestro Von Haughty wants to present three thrilling tales of terror and misfortune, but members of the Wayward Orphans Theatre make some very silly changes to the costumes and script.

7) Mike's mystery

Author

Series

Boxcar children mysteries volume 5
The Boxcar Children
Time to Read Level 2

Language

English

Formats

Description

The Warner children's friend Mike is blamed for starting a fire, but they are sure he is innocent.

8) Surprise Island

Author

Series

Boxcar children mysteries volume 2
The Boxcar Children Graphic Novels
Time to Read Level 2

Language

English

Formats

Description

The Warner children, while spending the summer on their own private island, discover a mysterious stranger who must keep his identity a secret.

9) The story of Holly and Ivy

Author

Godden, Rumer

Publisher

Viking

Language

English

Description

Orphaned Ivy finds her Christmas wish fulfilled with the help of a lonely couple and a doll named Holly.

10) Mountain top mystery

Author

Series

Boxcar children mysteries volume 9
The Boxcar Children

Language

English

Formats

Description

A family starts out on a one-day mountain climbing excursion that becomes very exciting. In fact, it becomes an adventure for the former "boxcar" family. They unearth some mysteries and have a fine time in the process.

11) The boxcar children

Author

Battle of the Books Grades 3-4
Junior Fiction Classics

Series

Boxcar children mysteries volume 1
The Boxcar Children
Time to Read Level 2

Language

English

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Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook

Description

Because they do not want to be separated, four orphaned children run away and live in an old abandoned boxcar.

12) The Man in the Moon

Author

Joyce, William

Series

Guardians of childhood

Publisher

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

Pub. Date

c2011.

Language

English

Description

When a newly orphaned baby in the moon makes friends with the children of Earth, he begins to shine as brightly as possible to ward off their fears.

13) Bicycle mystery

Author

Series

Boxcar children mysteries volume 15
The Boxcar Children

Language

English

Formats

Description

While the four Alden children are on a bicycle trip, they become involved with the mystery of a lost show dog.

14) Houseboat mystery

Author

Series

Boxcar children mysteries volume 12
The Boxcar Children

Language

English

Formats

Description

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.

15) Saving Sweetness

Author

Stanley, Diane

Publisher

Putnam's

Pub. Date

c1996.

Language

English

Description

The sheriff of a dusty western town rescues Sweetness, an unusually resourceful orphan, from old Mrs. Sump and her terrible orphanage.

16) The deserted library mystery

Author

Series

Boxcar children mysteries volume 21
The Boxcar Children

Language

English

Formats

Description

At an old library, the Alden children discover a boy who needs their help and a stranger who is after a valuable object they found in the library.

17) The castle mystery

Author

Series

Boxcar children mysteries volume 36
The Boxcar Children

Language

English

Formats

Description

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

The Alden children have another mystery to solve when they visit a castle and must figure out which of the guests has stolen the Stradivarius violin.

18) The skull: a Tyrolean folktale

Author

Klassen, Jon

Pub. Date

2023.

Language

English

Formats

Description

This is an old story. It is about a girl named Otilla who runs away. It is also about a house in the woods, and a skull who lives there, and a secret the skull has, and the night that Otilla finds out what that secret is.

19) Gilda the giraffe and Lucky the leopard

Author

Dahl, Michael

Series

Gilda the giraffe

Publisher

Picture Window

Pub. Date

2006.

Language

English

Description

With no family, Lucky the leopard searches for someone to love and take care of her, and after several disastrous experiences, she makes a surprising choice.

20) Madeline and the old house in Paris

Author

Marciano, John Bemelmans

Publisher

Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc

Pub. Date

2013.

Language

English

Description