"On a farm, the Aldens find their oldest mystery yet! Adapted from Gertrude Chandler Warner's story of the same name, this early reader allows children to start reading with a Boxcar Children classic."--

The children are staying at the home of a famous inventor who was known for her one-of-a-kind clocks. All the clocks make noise - especially at midnight, when there are enough chimes, gongs, and clangs to wake the whole house up! But the clocks aren't the only sound in the house at midnight. Someone - or something- is making a mysterious tapping sound. Who could be inventing trouble in the old house?

The Alden children help out at the Greenfield Ice Cream Barn and while learning to make ice cream and create new flavors, they help solve a mystery before the Barn gets shut down.

The Aldens take part in a hunt at a gem mine and discover that someone is out to sabotage the contest.

The Alden family rents a houseboat to drift down the river, and encounters a mystery in the little towns along the river, involving a fast black car.

The Boxcar Children go to summer camp, where they suspect that someone is cheating during the Camp Olympics. One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them no one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather, and they're spending a week at Camp Seagull on beautiful Claw Island. When they arrive at Camp Seagull, the Alden children...

The Aldens accompany their grandfather to his class reunion and investigate the possibility of a buried Civil War treasure, and of a ghost in the bell tower, at Goldwin University.

While visiting a Navaho Indian reservation in New Mexico, the Aldens try to save a forest under threat of development by proving it is the site of a lost, buried village, but someone is sabotaging their dig.

At the same time that the Alden children's efforts to raise money for a new hospital wing are being sabotaged by nasty tricks, they find their attempts to befriend the new girl Beth frustrated by her strange behavior.

Someone is trying to put Aunt Jane's motel out of business, but the Alden children aren't going to let that happen.