Gertrude Chandler Warner

The Old Motel Mystery Gertrude Chandler Warner

Brief Description: Someone is trying to put Aunt Jane's motel out of business, but the Alden children aren't going to let that happen. Brief Description: The children solve a mystery surrounding a shabby old motel. Jacket Description/Back: Aunt Jane takes the children to stay with her friend, Kay, who owns an old, shabby motel in Florida. Kay is ready to sell the motel, when the children offer to help fix it up and put it back in business. But they soon learn that someone is trying to make sure it stays out of business... forever. Jacket Description/Flap: The Boxcar Children offer to help Aunt Jane's friend, Kay, fix up her run-down motel. Review Citations:

Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/1991 (EAN 9780807559666, Paperback)

Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/1991 (EAN 9780807559673, Hardcover)

Contributor Bio:  Warner, Gertrude Chandler 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 Children.