orphans

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Thicker than water

Max Segredo and the S.P.I.E.S. are on a mission to steal a powerful mind control device before LOTUS does in order to keep the Mercy Sunshine Orphanage from closing.

The Sleepy Hollow mystery

The Aldens investigate when a friend's ghost tour business in Sleepy Hollow is disrupted by a spooky figure on horseback.

The interrupted tale

Miss Penelope Lumley, governess to the three Incorrigible children who were raised by wolves, is invited to speak at the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females. The academy's board of trustees asks Penelope to demonstrate the academic progress of her three charges to evaluate her Swanburne education and determine the future of the school. Now Penelope's job with the Incorrigibles is at risk.

Hidden in the haunted school

When rumors surface of a ghost haunting the hallways of Hawthorne School, it's up to the Boxcar Children to uncover the old school's secrets.

The hidden gallery

Fifteen-year-old Miss Penelope Lumley, a governess trained at the Swanburne Academy for Poor Bright Females, takes the three Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place to London, England, and learns they are under a curse.

Ends of the earth

Max Segredo is prisoner at LOTUS headquarters, and the evil Mrs. Frost is in the process of adopting him. The School for S.P.I.E.S. is scattered, the Merry Sunshine Orphanage burned down, and his father is AWOL. Max is on his own. To escape and achieve victory, Max will have to learn to fly a jet pack, escape a hungry tiger, and use his spy skills to stop LOTUS from taking over the minds of every government on Earth.

The election day dilemma

When the children's cousin Alice runs for mayor, the Boxcar Children must get down to the bottom of who her mysterious opponent is.

The celebrity cat caper

The Alden children help their favorite Internet celebrity, Walter the cat, when he inherits millions from his owner and rumors begin to fly about his famous tricks being fake.

Some kind of courage

In 1890 Washington the only family Joseph Johnson has left is his half-wild Indian pony, Sarah, so when she is sold by a man who has no right to do so, he sets out to get her back--and he plans to let nothing stop him in his quest.

True colors

In 1952 Vermont, ten-year-old Blue decides to set out in the middle of her town's sesquicentennial celebration to find the mother who abandoned her as a baby, but a series of events reminds her that she already has everything she needs.

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