The Hundred-Year Mystery

Name: The Hundred-Year Mystery
Brand: Oasis Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Gertrude Chandler Warner
ISBN: 9781621889489

Author: Gertrude Chandler Warner

Series: The Boxcar Children Mysteries #150

Narrator: Aimee Lilly

Unabridged: 1 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Oasis Audio

Published: 03/26/2019

Categories: Children's Fiction, Action & Adventure Stories, Children's Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

The Boxcar Children stumble across a 100-year-old time capsule with a mysterious journal inside. It contains clues that lead the children around Greenfield and through the history books in search of a lost treasure. But questions remain. Who wrote the journal? And after 100 years, will there be enough evidence to find the hidden treasure?

About The Author

Gertrude Chandler Warner was born in 1890 in Putnam, Connecticut, where she later taught school. She wrote The Boxcar Children because she had often imagined how delightful it would be to live in a caboose or freight car. Encouraged by the book’s success, she went on to write 18 more stories about the Alden children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nick on March 25, 2019

This was okay. I shouldn't make it more than it was trying to be. A simple . . . mystery (?) for children. It wasn't scary, and wasn't bogged down with any heavy-handed leftist propaganda. It probably deserves more stars just for that, but it was too simple to be anything but a read-and-be-done-with......more

Goodreads review by Susan on August 13, 2019

A fun mystery scavenger hunt transports the Boxcar Children back 100 years. This book was written to honor the man who started the publishing company (Albert Whitman) 100 years earlier. This is a fun history lesson about how children lived back then, and the mystery at the center comes to an excitin......more

Goodreads review by Eliana on February 22, 2024

When the Boxcar children find a 100 year old time capsule ,they find some riddles. What could it mean? And when they find out that important house might be torn down! Can they not let that happen and solve the riddles?......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on November 01, 2019

3.5 stars I really enjoyed this read along! I liked the riddles and how the children was supposed to solve the mystery of the riddles. It was a fun read and kind of spooky as well. It reminded me of The City of Embers.......more

Goodreads review by Jaymie on April 05, 2019

My 8 year old and I took turns reading this one to each other. He loves a good mystery, and I love remembering this series!......more