The Boxcar Children Beginning: The Aldens of Fair Meadow Farm (The Boxcar Children Mysteries)

Before they were the Boxcar Children Henry Jessie Violet and Benny Alden lived with their parents at Fair Meadow Farm. Although times are hard theyre happy"the best family of all " Mama likes to say. One day a blizzard hits the countryside and a car is stranded on the road near their farm. The family in the car needs shelter and when the Aldens take them in the strangers soon become friends. But things never stay the same at Fair Meadow Farm and the spring and summer bring events that will forever change the lives of the Alden children. Newbery-Award winning author Patricia MacLachlan pays loving tribute to the classic novel by Gertrude Chandler Warner in this story of the Alden childrens origins and the challenges they faced before their boxcar adventures.