Displaying 1 of 1 2012 Format: Book Author: MacLachlan, Patricia. Title: The Boxcar children beginning : the Aldens of Fair Meadow Farm / Patricia MacLachlan ; [interior illustrations by Robert Dunn]. Publisher, Date: Park Ridge, Ill. : Albert Whitman, ©2012. Description: 119 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Summary: In the year before they become the orphans known as the Boxcar children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden live with their parents at Fair Meadow Farm, where, although times are hard, they take in a family who has been stranded in their car during a blizzard. Series: The Boxcar children Boxcar children. Subjects: Families -- Juvenile fiction. Friendship -- Juvenile fiction. Siblings -- Juvenile fiction. Country life -- Juvenile fiction. Other Author: Dunn, Robert (Children's book illustrator), illustrator. Warner, Gertrude Chandler, 1890-1979. Other Title: Aldens of Fair Meadow Farm Notes: "Based on the series created by Gertrude Chandler Warner." Illustrator statement from title page verso. Prequel to the Boxcar children mysteries. Includes bibliographical references. Reading Counts 3-5 2.4 5. LCCN: 2011051134 ISBN: 9780807566169 0807566160 9780807566176 0807566179 9780329997786 0329997785 Other Number: 777363986 System Availability: 2 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 2 Control Number: 986543 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: SERIES j Boxcar c Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1