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The Amusement Park Mystery
Contributor(s): Warner, Gertrude Chandler (Created by)

ISBN: 0807503193 ISBN-13: 9780807503195
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: January 1992
Annotation: The Boxcar Children visit their cousin Joe and his wife Alice, who live in Pine Grove near an amusement park. The children fall in love with the beautiful antique horses of the merry-go-round, but when they later discover some of the horses damaged, they begin to suspect something funny is going on.

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Additional Information

BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Mysteries, Espionage, & Detective Stories
- Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure - General
- Juvenile Fiction | Family - General (see Also Headings Under Social Themes)

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 91005161

Age Level: 7-10

Grade Level: 2-5

Lexile Measure: 590(Not Available)

Series: Boxcar Children Mysteries

Physical Information: 0.36" H x 5.26" W x 7.59" L (0.17 lbs) 128 pages

Themes:
- Theometrics - Secular

Features: Illustrated, Price on Product

Review Citations: School Library Journal 01/01/1993 pg. 88

Accelerated Reader Info

Quiz #: 5325
Reading Level: 3.8 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 2.0

Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.

Publisher Description:

The Aldens visit their cousins Joe and Alice, who live near an amusement park The park has games, cotton candy, and a beautiful old carousel with wooden horses. But then Benny notices one horse isn't working and his favorite dapple gray has been damaged. Why would someone sabotage the carousel?

Contributor Bio(s): Warner, Gertrude Chandler: - 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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