The Aldens search for carousel horses that have disappeared from an amusement park.

Summer vacation on an almost private island gives the Aldens a challenge. Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather and are spending the summer on their own private island. There is a mysterious stranger on the island with a secret--but that's not the only surprise in store for the Boxcar Children.

Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny, known as the Boxcar children, are visiting their friend Fran in Wisconsin and they can't wait to hear the tale of the runaway ghost.

When Grandfather rents two cabooses, Benny Alden and his family embark on an exciting adventure.

A friendly writer with a metal detector, the mysterious inhabitants of a tower house, and the discovery of a locket in the sand are ingredients for the Aldens' latest mystery.

The Boxcar Children investigate a mysterious ghost with a glowing pumpkin head at a friend's farm.

"Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden are orphans looking for a place to live together as a family. Could a boxcar in the woods be their new home?"--

Bad luck hits the Greenfield Museum with the addition of an ancient mummy exhibit. Annotation. The Aldens are helping the museum curator set up an exhibit about life in ancient Egypt. But the longer the Aldens are around the exhibit's mummy, the more things go wrong. Has the museum been struck by a curse from the ancient mummy?

The Aldens investigate when a new store called the Game Spot opens in town and the neighboring shops are robbed.

The Boxcar children have dinner at a Chinese restaurant and get a handwritten riddle in a fortune cookie! One riddle leads to another, and the children wonder who is leaving them the cookie clues, and why?