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** Violet's fever and illness.
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* ArkhamsRazor: The real culprit of most of the later installments is invariably whichever suspect is not actually suspected by the title heroes.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Arguably, the Alden kids might have avoided living on the streets and the titular boxcar had they met their grandfather and cleared things up sooner.
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* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot: Arguably, the CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot:
** The Alden kids might have avoided living on the streets and the titular boxcar had they met their grandfather and cleared things upsooner.sooner. Henry and Jessie are ''very'' sheepish when they realize it since Violet probably wouldn't have gotten ill in the woods if they had lived with their grandfather in the first place. When the kids go to live with their grandfather, they find themselves missing the independence, so he arranges to have the boxcar moved in their yard.
** In ''The Pizza Mystery'', the lady with the red hat [[spoiler:reveals that she's been wanting to learn how to make pizzas and sending the kids on deliveries because her family restaurant is failing, and she is worried about her parents going bankrupt. The Piccolos bluntly ask why she didn't tell them, since they would have been happy to help without the subterfuge. They immediately start her on cooking lessons that she can pass on to her parents, for which she is eternally grateful]].
** The Alden kids might have avoided living on the streets and the titular boxcar had they met their grandfather and cleared things up
** In ''The Pizza Mystery'', the lady with the red hat [[spoiler:reveals that she's been wanting to learn how to make pizzas and sending the kids on deliveries because her family restaurant is failing, and she is worried about her parents going bankrupt. The Piccolos bluntly ask why she didn't tell them, since they would have been happy to help without the subterfuge. They immediately start her on cooking lessons that she can pass on to her parents, for which she is eternally grateful]].
* HeroicBystander: In the ''Farm Mystery'', the kids learn that [[spoiler:the horse that the family is boarding is a race star called Wind Dancer. Benny and the kids find thieves trying to steal Wind Dancer, and Benny uses his pouch full of thumbtacks to stop them with a flat tire]].
* NotSoDifferent: One gymnast that befriends the Aldens is quite enamored with their boxcar. She spends time in it, thinking. Later she reveals that her family back home is poor, with barely enough room in their apartment, so she understood what they were going through after thinking they were rich.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: The doctor who hires Henry for work in the first book. He figured out that Henry and his siblings were living in the woods and had their reasons for not wanting to reveal that; instead of asking about them, he gives Henry fair wages and as many cherries as he and the others can eat, while checking on them discreetly. When Henry revealed that Violet was ill, however, the doctor dropped the act and drove directly to the boxcar, taking the kids in while treating Violet.
* SupremeChef: The kids are this as a whole, owing to their experience making food in the boxcar. In ''The Zoo Mystery'', they insist on cooking for their grandfather's friend who owns the zoo in question, and he finds it delicious. During ''The Pizza Mystery'', they save a pizzeria by adapting the pizza recipes to the smaller oven, when the bigger one is broken.
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* WealthyEverAfter: The first book ends this way, with the children moving in with their grandfather, who is described as being very rich and living in a huge house with many servants. The rest of the books by Warner downplay his wealth, with the maids being replaced by a single housekeeper, Mrs. [=McGregor=]. In the post-Warner series, the Aldens are an upper middle class family (with a housekeeper), albeit one with enough room in their back yard for a boxcar.
* WhammyBid: In book #48, ''The Mystery Bookstore'', bidding on an old bookstore and its contents starts at 50,000 dollars and, in just seven bids, quickly hits 80,000. Then a final bidder outdoes everyone and wins by jumping the price to 100,000 dollars. [[spoiler: It's Grandfather Alden, who bought the bookstore as an investment and hires one of the earlier bidders, who happens to be a friend of his, to run the place.]]
* WhammyBid: In book #48, ''The Mystery Bookstore'', bidding on an old bookstore and its contents starts at 50,000 dollars and, in just seven bids, quickly hits 80,000. Then a final bidder outdoes everyone and wins by jumping the price to 100,000 dollars. [[spoiler: It's Grandfather Alden, who bought the bookstore as an investment and hires one of the earlier bidders, who happens to be a friend of his, to run the place.]]
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* WealthyEverAfter: The first book ends this way, with the children moving in with their grandfather, who is described as being very rich and living in a huge house with many servants. The rest of the books by Warner downplay his wealth, with the maids being replaced by a single housekeeper, Mrs. [=McGregor=]. In the post-Warner series, the Aldens are an upper middle class upper-middle-class family (with a housekeeper), albeit one with enough room in their back yard for a boxcar.
* WhammyBid: In book #48, ''The Mystery Bookstore'', bidding on an old bookstore and its contents starts at 50,000 dollars and, in just seven bids, quickly hits 80,000. Then a final bidder outdoes everyone and wins by jumping the price to 100,000 dollars. [[spoiler:It's Its Grandfather Alden, who bought the bookstore as an investment and hires one of the earlier bidders, who happens to be a friend of his, to run the place.]]
* WhammyBid: In book #48, ''The Mystery Bookstore'', bidding on an old bookstore and its contents starts at 50,000 dollars and, in just seven bids, quickly hits 80,000. Then a final bidder outdoes everyone and wins by jumping the price to 100,000 dollars. [[spoiler:
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* RealNameAsAnAlias: In the first book, when James Henry Alden meets his grandchildren for the first time (after having found out why they were avoiding him), he uses the name "Mr. Henry" to avoid scaring them off.
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* MythologyGag: In the first animated movie, the bakery they visit is called "Chandler's". In the sequel, Violet mentions her teacher Miss Warner.
* NoFlowInCGI: Neither animated movie shows a lot of movement in the final results, as evidenced by the lack of movement in longer hair.
* NoFlowInCGI: Neither animated movie shows a lot of movement in the final results, as evidenced by the lack of movement in longer hair.
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* StrongFamilyResemblance: In the movie, Henry specifically looks a lot like his dad based on an old photograph. It's also easy to tell that the Boxcar kids are related when all four of them are in a group.
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* MythologyGag: In the first animated movie, the bakery they visit is called "Chandler's". In the sequel, Violet mentions her teacher Miss Warner.
* NoFlowInCGI: Neither animated movie shows a lot of movement in the final results, as evidenced by the lack of movement in longer hair.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: In the movie, Henry specifically looks a lot like his dad based on an old photograph. It's also easy to tell that the Boxcar kids are related when all four of them are in a group.
* NoFlowInCGI: Neither animated movie shows a lot of movement in the final results, as evidenced by the lack of movement in longer hair.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: In the movie, Henry specifically looks a lot like his dad based on an old photograph. It's also easy to tell that the Boxcar kids are related when all four of them are in a group.
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** You have four orphan kids wandering around the countryside, because they don't want their grandfather, their legal guardian, to find them. At first they think they can spend a few days at a bakery, working there, until the owners plan to take Benny to the orphanage, because he's too young to work, and interrogate the others about their grandfather. The kids hightail it out of there, and the bakers look for them, searching the streets frantically.
** Henry has to be the breadwinner because he's the only one who can work. He also isn't even eighteen.
** One of Henry's employers, the doctor, reveals at the end of the book that he had figured out the kids lived in the woods. Sensing they would run if he busted them, however, he only visited their boxcar to make sure they had enough to eat and pays Henry well.
** Henry has to be the breadwinner because he's the only one who can work. He also isn't even eighteen.
** One of Henry's employers, the doctor, reveals at the end of the book that he had figured out the kids lived in the woods. Sensing they would run if he busted them, however, he only visited their boxcar to make sure they had enough to eat and pays Henry well.
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** You have four orphan kids wandering around the countryside, because they don't want their grandfather, their legal guardian, to find them. At first they think they can spend a few days at a bakery, working there, until the owners plan to take Benny to the orphanage, because he's too young to work, and interrogate the others about their grandfather. The kids hightail it out of there, and the bakers look for them, searching the streets frantically.
frantically because they fear for their safety.
** Henry has to be the breadwinner because he's the only onewho can who's old enough to work. He also isn't even eighteen.
** One of Henry's employers, the doctor, reveals at the end of the book that he had figured out the kids lived in the woods. Sensing they would run if he busted them, however, he only quietly visited their boxcar to make sure they had enough to eat and pays Henry well.
** Henry has to be the breadwinner because he's the only one
** One of Henry's employers, the doctor, reveals at the end of the book that he had figured out the kids lived in the woods. Sensing they would run if he busted them, however, he only quietly visited their boxcar to make sure they had enough to eat and pays Henry well.
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''The Boxcar Children'' was initially written in 1924, but the version that everyone now knows was published in 1942, and was specifically aimed at young readers.
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''The Boxcar Children'' was initially written in 1924, but the version that everyone now knows was published in 1942, and was specifically aimed at young readers.
readers. The author of both versions is Gertrude Chandler Warner.
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* AdaptationalDyeJob: Jessie is shown as being brunette like her siblings in the books cover art, but in the animated movie she's a redhead.
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** One of Henry's employers, the doctor, reveals at the end of the book that he had figured out the kids lived in the woods. Sensing they would run if he busted them, however, he only visited their box car boxcar to make sure they had enough to eat and pays Henry well.
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* AnimatedAdaptation: One was released in 2014, and is a straight up adaptation of the first book. It was reasonably well received, currently having a user-rating of 7.5 on [=IMDB=]. A sequel, Surprise Island, was released in May 2018.
* GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion: Warner rewrote the original book in 1942, changing several details from the 1924 version. Among other things:
** The original version has the father and four children move into town, with one of them stopping at a bakery for bread; during this time, it's established that their mother is already dead and the father a drunk. The next day, he's dead and the two elder children ask the baker's wife to come to their house, which she does, and meets all four children. She later talks to her husband through a window, and they agree the children must go to their grandfather. The siblings wait until the baker is gone, then flee from the house. The 1942 version greatly reduces this to start with the children in front of the bakery, and they stay with the owner and his wife that night until they hear them talking about splitting up the four by sending Benny to a children's home.
** The family's name is originally "Cordyce", and the eldest daughter goes by "Jess". These were changed to "Alden" and "Jessie" in the revised version.
** Henry and Benny are thirteen and five, respectively, in the original. The revised version ages them up to fourteen and six. (Jessie and Violet retain their original ages of twelve and ten.)
** The original version has the father and four children move into town, with one of them stopping at a bakery for bread; during this time, it's established that their mother is already dead and the father a drunk. The next day, he's dead and the two elder children ask the baker's wife to come to their house, which she does, and meets all four children. She later talks to her husband through a window, and they agree the children must go to their grandfather. The siblings wait until the baker is gone, then flee from the house. The 1942 version greatly reduces this to start with the children in front of the bakery, and they stay with the owner and his wife that night until they hear them talking about splitting up the four by sending Benny to a children's home.
** The family's name is originally "Cordyce", and the eldest daughter goes by "Jess". These were changed to "Alden" and "Jessie" in the revised version.
** Henry and Benny are thirteen and five, respectively, in the original. The revised version ages them up to fourteen and six. (Jessie and Violet retain their original ages of twelve and ten.)
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* LongRunningBookSeries: The first book came out in 1924. A shorter, revised version was released in 1942, and the first eighteen sequels came out from 1949 to 1976. Ghostwriters took over in 1991, and multiple books have been released every year since (the only year to ''not'' release a book in the original series was 2017, but that's because the five-book spinoff series ''The Boxcar Children Great Adventures'' was being released instead.
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* LongRunningBookSeries: The first book came out in 1924. A shorter, revised version was released in 1942, and the first eighteen sequels came out from 1949 to 1976. Ghostwriters took over in 1991, and multiple books have been released every year since (the only year to ''not'' release a book in the original series was 2017, but that's because the five-book spinoff series ''The Boxcar Children Great Adventures'' was being released instead.instead).
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* NotAllowedToGrowUp: In the post-Warner books, the kids' ages are froze at 14, 12, 10, and 6.
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* NotAllowedToGrowUp: In the post-Warner books, the kids' ages are froze slammed back to and frozen at 14, 12, 10, and 6.6 - the same ages they were in the first book.
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* SnapBack: Between the last book written by Warner, and the first by the publishing company, the Alden children's ages were reset to 14, 12, 10, and 6.
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* SnapBack: Between Over the last book written by Warner, and course of the first by nineteen books, the publishing company, the Alden children's children aged at least five years. In book 20, they're suddenly back to their original ages were reset to of 14, 12, 10, and 6.
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* AdaptationalDyeJob: Jessie is shown as being brunette like her siblings in the books cover art, but in the animated movie she's a redhead.
* AnimatedAdaptation: One was released in 2014, and is a straight up adaptation of the first book. It was reasonably well received, currently having a user-rating of 7.5 on [=IMDB=]. A sequel, Surprise Island, was released in May 2018.
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* MeaningfulName: Warner was apparently fond of these, as she used them at least four times in the books:
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** In ''Caboose Mystery'', the train conducter is named Mr. Carr.
** In ''Houseboat Mystery'', the owner of the houseboat the family rents is Mr. Rivers.
** In ''Lighthouse Mystery'', the main suspect of the mystery they discover that involves cooking is Larry Cook.
** In ''Tree House Mystery'', the Aldens' new neighbors who live in a house near the beach are the Beaches.
** In ''Caboose Mystery'', the train conducter is named Mr. Carr.
** In ''Houseboat Mystery'', the owner of the houseboat the family rents is Mr. Rivers.
** In ''Lighthouse Mystery'', the main suspect of the mystery they discover that involves cooking is Larry Cook.
** In ''Tree House Mystery'', the Aldens' new neighbors who live in a house near the beach are the Beaches.
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* ChooseYourOwnAdventure: The spinoff series ''The Boxcar Children Interactive Mysteries'', introduced in 2018, the first being ''Midnight at the Haunted Hotel''.
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* WhammyBid: In the book ''The Mystery Bookstore'', bidding on an old bookstore and its contents starts at 50,000 dollars and, in just seven bids, quickly hits 80,000. Then a final bidder outdoes everyone and wins by jumping the price to 100,000 dollars. [[spoiler: It's Grandfather Alden, who bought the bookstore as an investment and hires one of the earlier bidders, who happens to be a friend of his, to run the place.]]
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* WhammyBid: In the book #48, ''The Mystery Bookstore'', bidding on an old bookstore and its contents starts at 50,000 dollars and, in just seven bids, quickly hits 80,000. Then a final bidder outdoes everyone and wins by jumping the price to 100,000 dollars. [[spoiler: It's Grandfather Alden, who bought the bookstore as an investment and hires one of the earlier bidders, who happens to be a friend of his, to run the place.]]
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* AmateurSleuth: Although being a series aimed at young children, the "crimes" they solve are rarely very serious.
* ArkhamsRazor: The real culprit of most of the later installments is invariably whichever suspect is not actually suspected by the title heroes.
* ChooseYourOwnAdventure: The spinoff series ''The Boxcar Children Interactive Mysteries'', introduced in 2018, the first being ''Midnight at the Haunted Hotel''.
* DontSplitUsUp: This is a concern for the title characters, who assume when their parents die that they'll either be adopted by the grandfather their parents hate and they believe is abusive (which proves not to be the case) or be taken into foster care and split up. The latter proves to be a reasonable concern, as when they stay at a bakery overnight, they hear the owner and his wife (who'd previously agreed to let them stay) talking about how they're going to send Benny to the Children's Home since the baker's wife can't take care of a child who's that young. This prompts the four to run away into the woods, where they find the boxcar that becomes their home.
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* FreeRangeChildren: The first book they live quite alone in the woods. Though they go to live with their grandfather in later books, they continue to move around extremely independently, if to a slightly lesser extent.
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* FreeRangeChildren: The In the first book they live quite alone in the woods. Though they go to live with their grandfather in later books, they continue to move around extremely independently, if to a slightly lesser extent. The children's independence is not only allowed, but encouraged, by their grandfather - Henry and Jessie, the two oldest, are only 14 and 12, but they usually seem more like high schoolers and act basically as parent figures to Violet and Benny, the two youngest—who are 10 and 6, but also act older. Throughout the series, they've done such varied things as camping out, exploring the Arizona desert, and even caving, all without a lick of supervision. This makes sense, since the premise of the series is that they lived just fine in an abandoned boxcar for several months before learning their grandpa wasn't a jerk.
* GenderEqualEnsemble: The siblings, with Henry and Benny (the oldest and youngest) as the two boys and Jessie and Violet as the two girls.
* GenderEqualEnsemble: The siblings, with Henry and Benny (the oldest and youngest) as the two boys and Jessie and Violet as the two girls.
* KidDetective: The titular children, at least from books 2 on.
* LongRunningBookSeries: The first book came out in 1924. A shorter, revised version was released in 1942, and the first eighteen sequels came out from 1949 to 1976. Ghostwriters took over in 1991, and multiple books have been released every year since (the only year to ''not'' release a book in the original series was 2017, but that's because the five-book spinoff series ''The Boxcar Children Great Adventures'' was being released instead.
* MysteryMagnet: The titular group trip over mysteries on all of the vacations that they take during their [[ComicBookTime apparently endless summer vacation]].
* MysteryMagnet: The titular group trip over mysteries on all of the vacations that they take during their [[ComicBookTime apparently endless summer vacation]].
* PromotionToParent: Henry and Jessie, the two oldest, take on the role of mother and father for their younger siblings Violet and Benny. This is most noticeable in the first book, before the Aldens realize their grandfather is kind and go to live with him.
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** The kids' grown cousin Joe and his wife Alice are later retconned to be their aunt and uncle ([[AdaptationInducedPlotHole inadvertently raising the question of why the kids don't live with them]]).
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** The kids' grown cousin Joe (the son of Grandfather Alden's brother) and his wife Alice are later retconned to be their aunt and uncle ([[AdaptationInducedPlotHole inadvertently raising the question of why the kids don't live with them]]).
* RunawayHideaway: Type 2 (no place to go) - the Boxcar Children run away with no place in mind and eventually discover their boxcar by chance.
* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: TruthInTelevision at the time the first book was released - social services as we know it really didn't exist, with the exception of orphanages that focused on caring for the children they had, not tracking down runaways. The children ''are'' figured out and united with their grandfather in a matter of a few months, though.
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* YouDontLookLikeYou: In the sequel, Surprise Island, Henry, Violet, and Benny were redesigned. Jessie is the only one of the four Alden kids to look the same in both movies, though her eye color is changed from brown in the first movie to green in the sequel.
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* WhammyBid: In the book ''The Mystery Bookstore'', bidding on an old bookstore and its contents starts at 50,000 dollars and, in just seven bids, quickly hits 80,000. Then a final bidder outdoes everyone and wins by jumping the price to 100,000 dollars. [[spoiler: It's Grandfather Alden, who bought the bookstore as an investment and hires one of the earlier bidders, who happens to be a friend of his, to run the place.]]
* WorthlessTreasureTwist: Played straight in book #70, ''The Mystery of Pirate's Map''. The children find the last piece of a famous treasure map and try to get to the treasure before a greedy millionaire, who's spent his whole life trying to find it and stepped on a lot of people in the process. As they're digging for the treasure, they tell him that he can have whatever they find. The treasure chest contains a single coin, and a note from the pirate about "real treasure."
* YouDontLookLikeYou: In thesequel, Surprise Island, animated version of ''Surprise Island'', Henry, Violet, and Benny were redesigned. Jessie is the only one of the four Alden kids to look the same in both movies, though her eye color is changed from brown in the first movie to green in the sequel.
* WorthlessTreasureTwist: Played straight in book #70, ''The Mystery of Pirate's Map''. The children find the last piece of a famous treasure map and try to get to the treasure before a greedy millionaire, who's spent his whole life trying to find it and stepped on a lot of people in the process. As they're digging for the treasure, they tell him that he can have whatever they find. The treasure chest contains a single coin, and a note from the pirate about "real treasure."
* YouDontLookLikeYou: In the
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* NotAllowedToGrowUp: In the post-Warner books, the kids' ages are froze at 14, 12, 10, and 6.
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* KindlyHousekeeper: Mrs. [=McGregor=], the Alden family caretaker.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: In the first book Henry wastes no time looking for work to support his younger siblings. Jessie, being the next oldest is also this to Violet and Benny.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Jessie is the only one to have her original voice actress in both movies. In the movie sequel, Henry, Violet, and Benny were all recast.
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* AnimatedAdaptation: One was released in 2014, and is a straight up adaptation of the first book. It was reasonably well received, currently having a user-rating of 7.5 on [=IMDB=].
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* MythologyGag: In the animated movie, the bakery they visit is called "Chandler's".
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* MythologyGag: In the first animated movie, the bakery they visit is called "Chandler's"."Chandler's". In the sequel, Violet mentions her teacher Miss Warner.
* NoFlowInCGI: Neither animated movie shows a lot of movement in the final results, as evidenced by the lack of movement in longer hair.
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* AdultFear: Violet's fever and illness in the first book.
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* AdultFear: All of book one:
** You have four orphan kids wandering around the countryside, because they don't want their grandfather, their legal guardian, to find them. At first they think they can spend a few days at a bakery, working there, until the owners plan to take Benny to the orphanage, because he's too young to work, and interrogate the others about their grandfather. The kids hightail it out of there, and the bakers look for them, searching the streets frantically.
** Henry has to be the breadwinner because he's the only one who can work. He also isn't even eighteen.
** One of Henry's employers, the doctor, reveals at the end of the book that he had figured out the kids lived in the woods. Sensing they would run if he busted them, however, he only visited their box car to make sure they had enough to eat and pays Henry well.
** Violet's fever andillness in the first book.illness.
** You have four orphan kids wandering around the countryside, because they don't want their grandfather, their legal guardian, to find them. At first they think they can spend a few days at a bakery, working there, until the owners plan to take Benny to the orphanage, because he's too young to work, and interrogate the others about their grandfather. The kids hightail it out of there, and the bakers look for them, searching the streets frantically.
** Henry has to be the breadwinner because he's the only one who can work. He also isn't even eighteen.
** One of Henry's employers, the doctor, reveals at the end of the book that he had figured out the kids lived in the woods. Sensing they would run if he busted them, however, he only visited their box car to make sure they had enough to eat and pays Henry well.
** Violet's fever and
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* ArtifactTitle: The Boxcar Kids live in the box car in only one book yet the title sticks throughout the series. They do hang on to the boxcar, and use it as a clubhouse.
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* ArtifactTitle: The Boxcar Kids live in the box car boxcar in only one book yet the title sticks throughout the series. They do hang on to onto the boxcar, and use it as a clubhouse.
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* FreerangeChildren: The first book they live quite alone in the woods. Though they go to live with their grandfather in later books, they continue to move around extremely independently, if to a slightly lesser extent.
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* FreerangeChildren: FreeRangeChildren: The first book they live quite alone in the woods. Though they go to live with their grandfather in later books, they continue to move around extremely independently, if to a slightly lesser extent.
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* ContinuityNod: Book #3, ''The Yellow House Mystery'', establishes that Mrs. [=McGregor's=] first name is Margaret and Alice's maiden name is Wells. Both of these names are mentioned again in subsequent books much, ''much'' later in the series.
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** Mr. McGregor, who the kids reunite with Mrs. [=McGregor=] in the third book, disappears after the original books.
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** Mr. McGregor, [=McGregor=], who the kids reunite with Mrs. [=McGregor=] in the third book, disappears after the original books.
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* Retcon: Plenty in the post-Warner books
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* Retcon: {{Retcon}}: Plenty in the post-Warner books
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* Robinsonade: They spend part of ''Blue Bay Mystery'' staying on a tropical island with their grandfather and one of his friends, who had himself been shipwrecked for a time on the same island. [[spoiler:They also rescue a marooned teenage boy from the same situation.]]
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* Robinsonade: {{Robinsonade}}: They spend part of ''Blue Bay Mystery'' staying on a tropical island with their grandfather and one of his friends, who had himself been shipwrecked for a time on the same island. [[spoiler:They also rescue a marooned teenage boy from the same situation.]]
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** ''Lighthouse Mystery'' sees her, alone among the four children, plagued by mosquito bites.
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* Robinsonade: They spend part of ''Blue Bay Mystery'' staying on a tropical island with their grandfather and one of his friends, who had himself been shipwrecked for a time on the same island. [[spoiler:They also rescue a marooned teenage boy from the same situation.]]
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** Justified in ''Blue Bay Mystery'', since they're being tutored while on a trip to a South Sea island during the school year.
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* AdaptedOut: Many characters from the original books, including Mrs. [=McGregor=]'s husband, Aunt Jane's farmhands, Benny's friend Mike Wood, and the grandfather's pilot/former spy friend John Carter completely disappear in the post-Warner books.
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* AdaptedOut: Many characters from the original books, including Mrs. [=McGregor=]'s husband, Aunt Jane's farmhands, Benny's friend Mike Wood, and the grandfather's pilot/former spy friend John Carter nearly or completely disappear in the post-Warner books.
