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  THE YELLOW HOUSE MYSTERY

  The Alden children discover a mystery at the run-down yellow house on Surprise Island. Years ago a man vanished from the house. Nobody knew how or why. Now the children are determined to learn the real story. A trail of clues leads them on a new adventure, and an old mystery is solved!

  Gertrude Chandler Warner’s

  THE BOXCAR CHILDREN

  THE YELLOW HOUSE MYSTERY

  Adapted by Rob M. Worley

  Illustrated by Mike Dubisch

  THE YELLOW HOUSE MYSTERY

  Contents

  The Cave

  A Wedding

  The Tin Box

  Company in the Woods

  The Lumber Camp

  Almost Starving

  A Hunt for Benny

  The Box Again

  The Hermit

  Starting for Home

  A Happy Home

  THE BOXCAR CHILDREN

  GRAPHIC NOVELS

  The Boxcar Children

  Surprise Island

  The Yellow House Mystery

  Mystery Ranch

  Mike’s Mystery

  Blue Bay Mystery

  Snowbound Mystery

  Tree House Mystery

  The Haunted Cabin Mystery

  The Amusement Park Mystery

  The Pizza Mystery

  The Castle Mystery

  The Woodshed Mystery

  The Lighthouse Mystery

  Mountain Top Mystery

  Houseboat Mystery

  Bicycle Mystery

  Mystery in the Sand

  ABOUT THE CREATOR

  Gertrude Chandler Warner was born on April 16, 1890, in Putnam, Connecticut. In 1918, Warner began teaching at Israel Putnam School. As a teacher, she discovered that many readers who liked an exciting story could not find books that were both easy and fun to read. She decided to try to meet this need. In 1942, The Boxcar Children was published for these readers.

  Warner drew on her own experience to write The Boxcar Children. As a child she spent hours watching trains go by on the tracks near her family home. She often dreamed about what it would be like to live in a caboose or freight car—just as the Alden children do.

  When readers asked for more Alden adventures, Warner began additional stories. While the mystery element is central to each of the books, she never thought of them as strictly juvenile mysteries. She liked to stress the Aldens’ independence. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny go about most of their adventures with as little adult supervision as possible—something that delights young readers.

  During her lifetime, Warner received hundreds of letters from fans as she continued the Aldens’ adventures, writing nineteen Boxcar Children books in all. After her death in 1979, her publisher, Albert Whitman and Company, carried on Warner’s vision. Today, the Boxcar Children series has more than 100 books.

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  Copyright © 2009 by Abdo Consulting Group, Inc. All rights reserved. Published in 2009 by Albert Whitman & Company, 6340 Oakton Street, Morton Grove, Illinois, 60053-2723 by arrangement with Abdo Consulting Group, Inc. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher. THE BOXCAR CHILDREN® is a registered trademark of Albert Whitman & Company.

  Adapted by Rob M. Worley

  Illustrated by Mike Dubisch

  Colored by Wes Hartman

  Lettered by Johnny Lowe

  Edited by Stephanie Hedlund

  Interior layout and design by Kristen Fitzner Denton

  Cover art by Mike Dubisch

  Book design and packaging by Shannon Eric Denton

  ISBN 978-1-4532-2012-2

  This 2011 edition distributed by Open Road Integrated Media

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  New York, NY 10014

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  Table of Contents

  Cover

  The Yellow House Mystery

  Title Page

  Contents

  The Cave

  A Wedding

  The Tin Box

  Company in the Woods

  The Lumber Camp

  Almost Starving

  A Hunt for Benny

  The Box Again

  The Hermit

  Starting for Home

  A Happy Home

  Other Books in the Series

  About the Creator

  Copyright

 

 

  The Yellow House Mystery: The Boxcar Children Graphic Novels (Book Three), Gertrude Chandler Warner

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