The doctor recognizes their last name and remembers a notice he had read in the newspaper: James Henry Alden is offering $5,000 to the person that finds his four missing grandchildren. They do pretty well living alone with no grown-ups to help until Violet falls ill, and they must take her to see a doctor. Henry, the oldest of the siblings, finds work to make enough money to buy food and other necessary items. They run from the bakery and discover an abandoned boxcar in the forest, which they make a home. The kids take shelter in a bakery, and they overhear that the baker plans to keep all the kids except the youngest Benny will be sent to a children’s home. The only person left to care for them is their grandfather, who they believe to be a very unkind man. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny are orphans. There is also an animated movie of The Boxcar Children. There is a museum inside a red boxcar in honor of Gertrude and this remarkable book series. Other authors have gone on to write more about the Boxcar Children, and there are now well over 100 books in the series. Author Gertrude Chandler Warner was a school teacher when she began to write about the Boxcar Children-she went on to write 19 books in the series.
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