Henry Carter Hull

Four orphans, two boys and two girls, set up housekeeping in an old boxcar.

Long ago in Venice, Italy, a young orphan named Candida copies music each night for the orchestra of orphans who play for famed composer Vivaldi, and her imaginings find their way into one of his concertos.

Four orphaned children used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather, and in their new life encounter various adventures and mysteries.

A series of practical jokes at a restored nineteenth-century farmhouse makes the Aldens wonder if the ghost of its builder is at work.

Eleven-year-old Alanna and her older brother Hamel are orphans and doing their best to take care of each other until one day Alanna stumbles upon a cave full of dragon eggs. When the eggs hatch with no mother dragon in sight, Alanna decides to take care of the babies herself, even creating a clever costume so that the babies think she, too, is a dragon. With their large appetites and accidental fire burps, Alanna learns that dragon babies...

The Boxcar children uncover a mystery on a train trip from Boston to San Francisco.

The Boxcar Children investigate the secret of the clock tower at Goldwin University.

While on a cruise with their grandfather, the Alden children help discover who is behind the mysterious troubles of the ship--disconnected phone lines, engine trouble, a man overboard--and still have fun sightseeing, eating, and swimming.

The Aldens try to find the thief who stole a very rare teddy bear from the toy hospital at the teddy bear festival.

When the Aldens have the chance to work at a candy factory, they try to find out who is sabotaging the candy and why.