# The Box-Car Children

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- Authors: [Gertrude Warner](https://www.bookquiver.com/gertrude-warner)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2020-02-28
- Genres: Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Children’s / Teenage fiction and true stories

## Description

Four young orphans discover an abandoned boxcar and move in, embarking on a life of self-reliance and hard work — but also freedom and adventure. This new hardcover volume reprints the original 1924 edition, which launched the million-copy series. Ranked among the all-time " Top 100 Chapter Books," or children''s novels, in a School Library Journal survey, the book is also among the National Education Association''s " Teachers'' Top 100 Books for Children."

## Editions

### The Box-Car Children

- Publisher: Dover Publications
- ISBN: 978-04-8683-851-9
- Pages: 160
- Published: 2020-02-28
- Language: en_US