If I were a fan when Warner was first publishing the series I think I would have been disappointed with this ending. The mystery is OK, some parts are pretty easy to guess, but some of the mystery is pretty subtle. But there's no resolution with the characters. It's just like any other Boxcar Childr...
The mystery was so obvious to me that I kept wondering why everyone was confused for ~90% of the book. I remember Benny Uncovers a Mystery (#19) being a lot more mysterious when I was a kid though, so the intended audience of the Boxcar Children novels might enjoy this one.
I mixed this book with the one where they go to camp(?) and learn about the ocean. Also I thought Benny hurt his foot on the beach as a catalyst to... something. But that might have been a scene from another book I read in the 90s (Baby-Sitters Club?). Something that does bother me about the Boxca...
This one is wild, friends. The mystery makes no sense. And the food descriptions are lackluster. A little disappointing after Caboose Mystery which is also wild in a different way (circus clowns, friend betrayal, lost children, talking horses, glass making, diamond necklaces, Coke and orange juice d...
I wish this one were longer! The ending wraps everything up so quickly, there's so little time to process the end of the story. Still I enjoyed this one a lot.
Would have been better without the vague, hand-wave-y "Indian" references. I liked Lovan and David as characters but was not a fan of the lack of specificity regarding their Indian tribe/customs/language/etc.
Boxcar Children books are so great if you only have an hour or so of uninterrupted time. I remember reading this one as a kid. They seemed so much longer and more mysterious back then, but they hold up to rereading. (The best part of any Boxcar Children's book is when they eat.)
I haven't read these but I know any child who loves mysteries and reading will love them. I would love to have the entire series in my classroom. This would be a fun book report project or a book for a student to read and then share about it to the class. I would use this for a read to self idea wit...
This one is much shorter than the first three books. I remember reading it as a kid, but it felt a lot longer and more mysterious back then. It could have done with some rounding out, more about Aunt Jane and the ranch perhaps.
The first Boxcar Children book with a proper mystery (I didn't find Joe's mystery in the last book that mysterious... or interesting). More q-slurs. More "Indian" things (complete with an American Indian character). I thought I'd read this one before since the bit in the yellow house seemed familiar...
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