Bent Northrop Memorial Library

"What will the Aldens discover on a vacation to a deserted island? Adapted from Gertrude Chandler Warner's story of the same name, this early reader allows children to start reading with a Boxcar Children classic."--

"The year is 1876. Warring Indian tribes still populate America's western territories even as lawless gold-rush towns begin to mark the landscape. In much of the country, it is still illegal to espouse evolution. Against this backdrop, two monomaniacal paleontologists pillage the Wild West, hunting for dinosaur fossils while surveilling, deceiving, and sabotaging each other in a rivalry that will come to be known as the Bone Wars. Into this treacherous...

The adventures of the Alden family as they ride across country in a caboose that has a strange history--or is it a mystery?.

The Alden children, who are spending the summer in a lighthouse on the New England coast, are disturbed by a mysterious woman walking the lighthouse grounds.

The Boxcar Children, now living with their grandfather, spend the summer on their Aunt Jane's ranch. Their aunt seems quite unhappy until at the end of the summer a surprise discovery brings happiness to all.

Describes the actions of both whites and Comanches during a 40-year war over territory, in a story that begins with the kidnapping of a white girl, who grew up to marry a Comanche chief and have a son, Quanah, who became a great warrior.