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The Aldens are selected to participate in a new game show, and as a camera crew follows them around, they compete with another brother and sister team in search of clues in Philadelphia.

When the Aldens help a friend of their grandfather's to build the world's largest yo-yo, they soon discover that more than one person is trying to prevent them from finishing the job--and for more than one reason.

The Aldens investigate when a new store called the Game Spot opens in town and the neighboring shops are robbed.

While helping out part time in a pet shop, the Alden children discover an employee who is smuggling and selling exotic animals.

When Sam, who can barely read, discovers an old newspaper clipping just before his eleventh birthday, it brings forth memories from his past, and, with the help of a new friend at school and the castle they are building for a school project, his questions are eventually answered.

Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny begin to dig into the past of the old boxcar turned playhouse in their back yard and discover clues about why it is being haunted.

The Boxcar Children investigate when everything seems to go wrong for the Greenfield Museum as soon as the Museum displays a four-thousand-year-old ancient Egyptian mummy.

Eidi leaves her mother and stepfather in Crow Cove to live in a nearby village, where she meets the much younger Tink and rescues him from the abusive man he has been living with.

Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny experience the fun of a drive-in movie theater when they visit a friend who owns one, but when strange pranks interrupt their fun, and a ghost is spotting walking the grounds, they wonder if the teenage staff might be hiding a secret.

While sightseeing in Niagara Falls, the Boxcar children investigate a rash of souvenir store thefts.