Order of Boxcar Children Books
The Boxcar Children is a series of children’s mystery novels created by American author Gertrude Chandler Warner. The series follows four orphans – Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny Alden – who find a boxcar in the forest that they turn into their home. Not long after that, they meet their grandfather, who they had believed was a mean person but was actually a nice man. Soon, the children become amateur sleuths and go around solving the mysteries that they come across. Although adults are present in the series, the children are very much unsupervised. In 2014, an animated film was released (starring Martin Sheen).
Gertrude Chandler Warner originally began her Boxcar Children series in 1924, but the more well-known edition of the novel was not released until 1942. Warner wrote the first 19 novels of the series, with her final novel being the 1976 novel Benny Uncovers a Mystery. In 1991, the publisher revived the now-ghostwritten series with The Haunted Cabin Mystery. Below is a list of Gertrude Chandler Warner’s Boxcar Children books in order of when they were originally published (which is the same as their chronological order):
Publication Order of Boxcar Children Books
Publication Order of Boxcar Children Special Books
| The Mystery on the Ice | (1993) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mystery in Washington D.C. | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mystery at Snowflake Inn | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mystery at the Ballpark | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Pilgrim Village Mystery | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mystery at the Fair | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Pet Shop Mystery | (1996) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mystery in the Old Attic | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Niagara Falls Mystery | (1997) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Windy City Mystery | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mystery of the Queen's Jewels | (1998) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mystery in New York | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mystery of the Black Raven | (1999) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Home Run Mystery | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Honeybee Mystery | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mystery of the Tiger's Eye | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mystery of the Screech Owl | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Mystery of Alligator Swamp | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Candy Factory Mystery | (2002) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Great Shark Mystery | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Black Widow Spider Mystery | (2003) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Boxcar Children Graphic Novels
| The Yellow House Mystery | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Tree House Mystery | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Surprise Island | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Boxcar Children | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mystery Ranch | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Blue Bay Mystery | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mike's Mystery | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Haunted Cabin Mystery | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Amusement Park Mystery | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Pizza Mystery | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Castle Mystery | (2010) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Woodshed Mystery | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Lighthouse Mystery | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mountain Top Mystery | (2011) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of The Boxcar Children Great Adventure Books
| Journey on a Runaway Train | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Clue in the Papyrus Scroll | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Detour of the Elephants | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Shackleton Sabotage | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Khipu and the Final Key | (2017) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of The Jessie Files Books
(By: Gertrude Chandler Warner, Stacia Deutsch)
| The Friendship Feature | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Talk of the Town | (2022) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| A Dramatic Disappearance | (2023) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Note: The novel The Box-Car Children was first published in 1924. In 1942, the novel was revised into a shorter version and re-titled The Boxcar Children.
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Boxcar Children Synopsis: In The Yellow House Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner, Benny is intrigued by a spooky old house located on Surprise Island.
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