TY  - BOOK
AU  - MacLachlan,Patricia
AU  - Dunn,Robert
AU  - Warner,Gertrude Chandler
TI  - The Boxcar children beginning: the Aldens of Fair Meadow Farm 
T2  - Boxcar children
SN  - 0807566160 (hc.)
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - Albert Whitman
KW  - Brothers and sisters
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Country life
KW  - Families
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Mystery and detective stories
KW  - Mystery fiction
KW  - gsafd
N1  - Map on endpapers; Prequel to the Boxcar children mysteries; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - In the year before they become the orphans known as the Boxcar children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden live with their parents at Fair Meadow Farm, where, although times are hard, they take in a family who has been stranded in their car during a blizzard
ER  -