Food is everywhere in the Boxcar Children books, even after the Alden children find a home with their grandfather. They drink coconut milk on an island adventure; they marvel over enormous cookies; they cook enough chowder and baked beans to feed an

Soon to be fourth grade Heartland Ranch students worked on the classic series Boxcar Children. “It was a very fun time,” Alan Corrales said. “We had a lot of time to finish it.” The group working on the first Boxcar Children book split the chapters up

In their second week, the children enjoyed reading about knights and making knight's shields. Pre-K to third graders meet on Tuesdays at 10 am On Tuesday, June 14, Family Literacy Project Book Club read "The Boxcar Children" and "The Cupcake Caper" and

My first favorite book that I can truly recall was actually a series, “The Boxcar Children.” I remember my mom gave it to me because she read them when she was a kid, and after that I was hooked. I pretended I was an orphan and had to live a boxcar too

My wife, Gail, did everything she could to keep me involved in our children's lives during those years. For instance, my eldest daughter, just beginning elementary school, was reading the Boxcar Children books. Gail mailed me extra copies of the books