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Surprise Island

Pages
92
Published
1949
Language
English

Synopsis

The Boxcar Children are spending their summer on a private island, a far cry from their previous life in a boxcar. But their idyllic getaway is interrupted by a mysterious stranger with a secret. What surprises await Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny on Surprise Island?

About the author

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Gertrude Chandler Warner

Gertrude Chandler Warner was an American author, mainly of children's stories. She was most famous for writing the original book of The Boxcar Children and for the next eighteen books in the series. Warner once said that she did much of her writing while convalescing from illnesses or accidents, and that she conceived the idea of The Boxcar Children while sick at home. Of this, she said, "I had to stay at home from school because of an attack of bronchitis. Having written a series of eight bo...

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