The boxcar children / Warner, Gertrude Chandler

Four orphaned children, afraid to go live with their grandfather, set up housekeeping in an abandoned boxcar and are doing fine until one of them becomes ill.

The resourceful Alden children survive without adult supervision and make a home for themselves in an abandoned boxcar.

Four orphaned children run away and live in a boxcar, until they are found by their grandfather. Includes a biography and photographs of the author.