The Clue in the Recycling Bin

Illustrated by Robert Papp
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The Aldens volunteer at the new recycling center in Greenfield.They find interesting objects that they take home and fix up. But after the Boxcar Children learn that the center has been vandalized, there's a mystery to dig through. Why would someone want to make a mess of all the junk?
  • SHORTLIST | 2012
    Green Earth Book Award
Gertrude Chandler Warner grew up in Putnam, Connecticut. She wrote The Boxcar Children because she had always dreamed about what it would be like to live in a caboose or a freight car—just as the Aldens do. When readers asked for more adventures, Warner wrote more books—a total of nineteen in all. After her death, other authors have continued to write stories about Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden, and today The Boxcar Children® series has more than one hundred books.

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The Aldens volunteer at the new recycling center in Greenfield.They find interesting objects that they take home and fix up. But after the Boxcar Children learn that the center has been vandalized, there's a mystery to dig through. Why would someone want to make a mess of all the junk?

Awards

  • SHORTLIST | 2012
    Green Earth Book Award

Author

Gertrude Chandler Warner grew up in Putnam, Connecticut. She wrote The Boxcar Children because she had always dreamed about what it would be like to live in a caboose or a freight car—just as the Aldens do. When readers asked for more adventures, Warner wrote more books—a total of nineteen in all. After her death, other authors have continued to write stories about Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden, and today The Boxcar Children® series has more than one hundred books.