"On a farm, the Aldens find their oldest mystery yet! Adapted from Gertrude Chandler Warner's story of the same name, this early reader allows children to start reading with a Boxcar Children classic."--

During a scarlet fever outbreak in 1906, Lizabeth must decide whether it is more important to be Strawberry Queen or to be at the bedside of her ill sister.

Someone is leaving books on Flora, Ruby, Olivia, and Nikki's doorsteps. Each comes with a mysterious message asking them to read the book and do something new.

Sorrel Sparrow, an American nursery owner with a rare gift with plants, jumps at the chance to help revive a run-down Shakespearean garden on a country estate in England. The ancestral home of Sir Graham Kirkwood and his wife, Stella, the Kirkwood Hall garden exudes a sense of heartbreak, betrayal and enchantment. As Sorrel becomes intrigued with the house's haunting history-- and the owner's brother-in-law-- she slowly unravels the ancient garden's...

Maggie Messina knows that knitting is enjoyable, so she's happy to visit two sisters, Rose and Holly Piper, to teach them some simple stitches with the Black Sheep knitters. The lesson goes well, but the knitters are troubled about the sisters living alone in a remote corner of Plum Harbor. Their fears are realized when Holly is attacked in her greenhouse and the building set ablaze. Rose is found nearby, her dogs running wild. While everything seems...

"Death sets the plot in motion: the murder of Nica Baker, beautiful, wild, enigmatic, and only sixteen. The crime is solved, and quickly--a lonely classmate, unrequited love, a suicide note confession--but memory and instinct won't allow Nica's older sister, Grace, to accept the case as closed. Dropping out of college and living at home, working at the moneyed and progressive private high school in Hartford, Connecticut, from which she recently graduated,...

Charlotte Maynard rarely leaves her mother's home, the sprawling Connecticut lake house that belonged to her late stepfather, Whit Whitman, and the generations of Whitmans before him. While Charlotte and her sister, Sally, grew up at "Lakeside", their stepbrothers, Spin and Perry, were welcomed as weekend guests. Now the grown boys own the estate, which Joan occupies by their grace--and a provision in the family trust. When Spin, the youngest and...

The Sisters and the Brotherhood near all-out war as an epidemic breaks out in New London, and the prophecy that one sister will murder another comes ever closer to fruition.

A murder mystery in a small town raises suspicions when a member of a well-regarded family in the community is implicated"-- Miranda Allerdon is a dreamer, floating her way through life. Her sister Lander is older, focused, and determined to succeed. As the girls and their parents begin another summer at their cottage on the Connecticut River, Lander plans to start medical school in the fall, and Miranda feels cast in her shadow. When the Allerdons...