when I was in third grade many many moons ago the teacher would read us a chapter every week it was about a family of children who lived in a railroad car and their adventures but I wish I knew the name of it. Thanks

Was it The Boxcar Children, and How They Grew? or something like that? :D:D:D

Was it the Boxcar Children series?

Yes, Box car children.:)

I read the Boxcar Children, and the Bobbsey Twins at about the same time... I hadn't thought about the Boxcar Children in years :D
We talked here a while ago about the Bobbsey Twins and some other older favorites... however did we miss this one? :D:D:D

it was the Boxcar children. :) I have all of mine from when I was little and I'm reading them to my daughter. :)

It was the boxcar children. There were a series of these books written by American writer and first-grade school teacher, Gertrude Chandler Warner.

Yes, these are still published under her name and now there are updated ones. Even in graphic (comic) novel style. Kids still like them.

That's one I missed out on. Sounds like a neat series!

They are awesome!

One of our favorites was The All Of A Kind Family by Sydney Taylor. I love them as an adult!

I loved the Boxcar Children. But my favorite was the Nancy Drew stories. Every time I would finish one, my mom would buy me the next one. I remember they were numbered too.

The Boxcar Children series?

These sound great, I'm always looking for books to read to my granddaughter...

Sent it to my daughter who worked in the library for many years.if she knows, I will get back to you with the info............

Oh and Trixie Belden

Loved Nancy Drew and Trixie Belden, the Hardy Boys. Bomba the Jungle Boy, Five Little Pappers and How They Grew, and Little Women!

I was a third grade teacher and always read Boxcar Children to my class. Later it was adopted as the book for the children to read during reading group time.

I also read Charlotte's Web aloud each year.

It is the Boxcar Children and is available on Amazon for $4.99

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The Boxcar Children - by Gertrude Chandler?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...hildren_novels

It was called The Boxcar Children. I must have walked from my house to the library a bazillion times just to check it out and read it. It was my favorite book. I wish I had an old copy of if so I could read it to my granddaughter.

Jellybeans..did you check out the post right above yours?

It tells you all about the many books...check it out.....

It's definitely the Boxcar Children series. A little dated but kids still love them!

The Boxcar Children? The Orphan Train? Those are two books I am familiar with. Google the titles, it will probably confirm if these titles are what you thought. The first is more early elementary and the second is more middle school based on true history.

Definitely the Boxcar Children. Both my boys enjoyed the entire series. You can never own too many books. (Except now it is stored on Kindles)

I read the Bobbsie Twins and Nancy Drew series when I was young. My dad would go to the Salvation Army once a week and if he found a book for .05 cents he would bring it home for me. What a treat and I still have my books. All my barbies were given away to a family that was burned out, but I refuse to give up my books.
My son read the Boxcar Children series when he was young.

Yes, the Boxcar Children. I used to read them to my kids.
The Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys really did urge kids to read. One of my daughters took her Nancy Drews with her when she married, the other one waited till she was herself married till she came back for her Cherry Ames and some of the other series. Last one, a son, reluctantly gave his Hardy Boys to his smaller cousins when he went to the Navy.

The series of books like that many years ago really did help kids to read. When I tried to talk a middle school librarian into getting some, or accepting some for the school library, she sneered at the idea. Said that in her experience, kids did not like such things and they wanted books to read about kids like themselves!!!!!!
All the while there was a line like a bunch of ants of little girls and later boys, borrowing my kids' books.
I'd sure like to have seen that librarian when the Harry Potter books came out..I saw 8 and 9 year olds clutching their copies at Costco, and they were happily sounding out the words in that book! The author said that many publishers sent her book back, saying it had too many hard words in it, too many twists and turns and it was far too hard for kids it was aimed at.
I'll bet heads rolled when that series was finally bought by some forward looking publisher!!! Now that author is no longer a welfare mom but a multimillionaire! And I'll bet her first husband who dumped her often breaks his leg kicking himself in the rear!!

The Boxcar Children. Jessie was the oldest girl. Love that book! Still have a copy on my bookshelves. Won't say how long ago I read that story. There are sequels out now, too. Haven't been interested in those. :-)

y. There are sequels out now, too. Haven't been interested in those. :-)[/quote]
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There are sequels to most of them, updated to these times. I bought one of them for a young G Niece, who did not like it. I got her some of the original ones which she DID like very much.

It is the Boxcar Children series----I can't believe that you had the same experiance I had---My 3rd grade teacher did the same thing (back in the 50's in MS)----I ordered these same books on Amazon for my grandson. He loved the stories that I use to tell abt the children and now he has these same books to share with his children one day---

The BoxCar Children

THE BOXCAR CHILDREN MYSTERIES are sixty years old this year and they are celebrating with a brand new 60th Anniversary edition.

These were the first books that I learned to love reading with. At the beginning of my second year in 2nd grade I could hardly get through a DR. Suess. By the end of the year I was mad at the librarian because she wouldn't let me check out the third book. She said that it was a 3rd grade book. Three months later (after summer break) she let me check it out. What was the difference?

I remember my third grade teacher reading aloud to us. The Borrowers and Hitty, Her First Hundred years

I loved the Box car children books. Especially the 1st one when they moved into a box car then scavenged all they needed.
The Bobsey Twins was another series about a family with 2 sets of twins.
The other book was "Five Little Peppers and How They Grew", a book that made me cry. A very poor family, widow(I think) and 5 children living in poverty, but with much grace. One part I remember was, they were given a Christmas basket. Instead of having it all at once, the mother carefully divided it so some could be shared with others in her neighborhood who were equally destitute, and then put some aside for another meal another day.
I think these all came out about te same time, at least I read them about the same time.
I thought the Hardy Boys were cooler than Nancy Drew, and I think the older stories (in the fifties?) MUCH better than the later ones('80's?)

These were my favorite when I was a kid. When my two daughters were about 5 & 8 (now 13 and 17) we read a few chapters of The Boxcar Children each evening. One day, I walked into the bathroom to find them and their two cousins sitting in the bathtub. When I asked them what they were doing, they looked at me like I was crazy. "We're the Boxcar Children". DUH!!

Yepper!!!!! They were The Boxcar Children!!!! I had the entire series and recently gave them all to my two nieces and nephew!! They had a house fire back in February and lost absolutely EVERYTHING -- including their beloved books! The kids were so excited to get these -- even more so when I told them I used to read them (not these particular copies) when I was a child! I was absolutely hooked on The Boxcar Children!! :D :D

Wow... I remember that book.... I absolutely fell in love with those books. I think I read them over and over when I was younger and then I read them to my boys when they were little!

OOOOOO Wouldn't a quilt of the Boxcar be soooo cute!!!!