The Mystery of the Screech Owl - Paperback

by Gertrude Chandler Warner (Created by)

Grandfather and the children are visiting Broken Moon Pond, where Grandfather used to vacation as a child. The children are enchanted by the beautiful wilderness. But they soon encounter a strange set of coincidences, mishaps, and mysteries that threaten to spoil everyone's fun. When one night they see an empty boat rowing itself across the water, the Aldens wonder if the pond is really haunted, as the townspeople claim!

Front Jacket

Grandfather and the children are visiting Broken Moon Pond, where Grandfather used to vacation as a child.

Back Jacket

One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery.

No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from.

A super-special mystery for the Boxcar Children!

Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather, and they are visiting Broken Moon Pond, where Grandfather vacationed as a child.

The children are enchanted by the wilderness and happy to meet another family with four children staying at the pond. But the Aldens soon encounter a strange set of coincidences and mishaps that threaten to spoil everyone's fun. When one night they see a rowboat moving across the water with no one in it, they begin to wonder: Is the pond haunted, as the townspeople claim? The Boxcar Children are determined to discover who -- or what -- is trying to scare everyone away!

Author Biography

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(R) series has more than one hundred books.