It’s summer at the shore, but someone wants to put a stop to all the fun! Who’s ruining the rides at the amusement pier? The Aldens are on the case . . .

Gertrude Chandler Warner was born in 1890 in Putnam, Connecticut, where she taught school and wrote The Boxcar Children because she had often imagined how delightful it would be to live in a caboose or freight car. Encouraged by its success, she went on to write eighteen more stories about the Alden chidren.