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The mystery bookstore

When their grandfather buys a bookstore at auction in New Orleans, the Alden children help clean it up and discover that several people seem to be obsessed with the store and its contents.

Main Author: Warner, Gertrude Chandler, 1890-1979-
Other Authors: Tang, Charles (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Morton Grove, Ill. : A. Whitman, 1995.
Series: Boxcar children mysteries ; 48.
Subjects:
Bookstores > Juvenile Fiction.
Stamp collecting > Juvenile fiction.
Boxcar children (Fictitious characters) > Juvenile fiction.
Brothers and sisters > Juvenile fiction.
Railroad cars > Juvenile fiction.
Orphans > Juvenile fiction.
New Orleans (La.) > Juvenile fiction.
Mystery fiction > Juvenile.
Summary: When their grandfather buys a bookstore at auction in New Orleans, the Alden children help clean it up and discover that several people seem to be obsessed with the store and its contents.
Physical Description: p. cm.
ISBN: 0807554219 (hardcover)
0807554227 (pbk.)
Author Notes: Gertrude Chandler Warner was born in 1890 in Putnam, Connecticut, where she taught school and wrote The Boxcar Children because she had often imagined how delightful it would be to live in a caboose or freight car. Encouraged by the book's success, she went on to write eighteen more stories about the Alden children.

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