If you love snow, this book is for you. I'll leave the mystery up to you. Anyways, they visit a cabin. Then, after Tom Nelson finds his recipie for his father's secret buns he names it after Benny. Benny's Buns. The recipie is in the book.

The Snow Boun Mystery is actually my favorite Boxcar Children Book, I'm not kidding either! Once when I ran out of books to read and my Mother refused to take me to the librarie I read the whole book twice. Since I've been reading other childrens mysteries the book is harder for me to remember.Ifeel like reading it right now! some things I remember are that the Aldens Grandfather ,James Alden, has a friend who allows the Alden children his log cabin for some time. Also I remember a grocery store about a mile away and a nice family in which lives there , On the way to bring food to the Aldens one person gets stuck th others get to the Aldens and they get they get that person safe and sound where the family stays untll the storm wore off.There is also apart about finding letters in the attick, apart about Viiolet disapearing, and a part abouta closet near the fire place. I don't want to give all of it away but, it's just hard not to do.Thankyou for your time to read all about this fabulous book!

The boxcar children are going to a camp,a camp that grandfather used to go to when he was young, but when they get there, things don't look so great, everybody is being mean to them and things start missing. Can the boxcar children solve the mystery.

the boxcar children are going to a camp that their grandfather used to go to.but when they get there people there don't like them.and things are missing.can the boxcar children solve the mystery?

This is the best and ultimate mermaid love story. It is completelly romantic in tone and trully moving. Inspiration for Andersen, Wilde and Tchaikovsky, admired by Poe and Lovecraft, this is a story that any lover of fantastic tales will enjoy profoundly. It is my personal favorite.

This is the orignal Fairy Tale Noir, which inspired all the rest: ballet, opera, Giraudoux's ONDINE, and Osborne's HAUNTED WATERS. This novella examines the spiritual question of the Soul--that elusive quality of mankind. Can it be other than God-given? Can it be acquired through marriage or noble deeds; bartered or even outright sold? Does possession of a soul make one's life easier or more difficult, one's decisions clearer or more complex?

This 175-year-old fairy tale from the enchanted forests of Germany is intensely poetic and Romantic in style, yet it echoes Medieval sagas of hopeless, emotional quests. The ageless theme is the danger of unnatural union between a mortal and an immortal, human and supernatural beings--regardless of the sincerity of their Love. This short tale is further condensed by the skillful translator, yet it retains the flavor of dark mystery of the original. Fouque's sylvan setting and watery undulations surpise us at every turn: fl! ood, stream, fountain, ocean, lake. Ethereal, humanesque forms melt and dissolve into liquid elements. Does an evil demon stalk Undine and her cavalier? Is this presence trying to protect her or reclaim her from the solid world.? To which world would she rather belong--or does she even have a choice at all?

Like Hans Christian Andersen's LITTTLE MERMAID (forget the Disney version), Undine endures great suffering in exchange for the gift of a human soul. Alas, like the prince in the HCA original, Lord Huldbrand proves faithless to his bride, thus endangering their future together and both their lives. The plot flows along swiftly and inevitably to its disastrous conclusion; no one in the lovers' triangle triumphs in the end. The water sprites merely mock the futility of human endeavor. This is a fast read which will entice lovers of Fantasy into the spell of seeking ever more about UNDINE, a heroine as evanescent as a rainbow in the mist..

A wonderful book. It gave sooo much information. Parents will love it. I feel the author tried to tell us something. I think he wants us to keep trying to accomplish our goals and not be bothered by what other people say.

Amish in Michigan is an accessible and truly interesting history of Amish culture. More importantly, it discusses the reasons why Amish populations are growing. If you are at all interested in the Amish, read this book.

This book covers everything a massage therapist needs to know, things I wasn't even taught in massage school. If you want to know it all, get this book. It is wonderful and I plan on using it as THE massage book for the massage school I am opening this year.

I read _Blood on the Dining Room Floor_ a couple months ago, during a time when I read almost nothing but sharp, hardboiled pulp detective stories. I might suggest that method -- read some old Sam Spade shorts (contemporary with Stein's writing of this little gem), then read this book, then go back.

Where Hammett and company's tales are sharp, grittily realistic, and driven by swarthy melodramatic plots, Stein's one mysterious foray into the Murder Mystery genre has little discernible plot, is distinctly un-swarthy, lacks melodrama, and for these reasons is perhaps far more realistic than Hammett et al. are held to be; _Blood_ clearly reflects the confusion we (I) feel in the face of traumatic events... the mind reels before the reality (which always lacks cliche and melodrama) of violence and leaves one (me) with nothing but an almost incoherent froth of language in one's (my) head, out of which occasionally bubble moments of "clarity": bits of facts and/or memories of incidents and characters which may or may not be accurate. Sometimes, too, the froth dissolves into moments of almost ritual invocation: "Lizzie do you understand do you understand lizzie": the mind reaching out to (hi)stries of past violence (the fall river axe murders, lizzie borden) to unsuccesfully but compulsively try to order and give meaning to the violence at hand.

Dazzling. The full effect of this book (the composition of "my take" on it which appears above) came only after weeks of letting the book sit in the back of my mind, as I moved back to pulp detective stories and on to other things.

It is classic Stein, a pure uncut jewelled antidote to the false-feeling closures of the usual mystery novel and the journalistic, faux-objective treatments of the violent throughout fiction, film, and (dare I mention) TV. A true refuge for the "thinking" person.

this is a wonderful childrens book. i am very fond of all of william joyces writings and illstrations, and this book certianly did'nt dissapoint me.

I felt that this book was written in the true Boxcar Children style. This is one of the original books in the series and has the same wonderful story line. I love the Boxcar children stories and recommend this one along with all the others.

The Candy Factory Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner is about four orphan children living in a boxcar alone. These children are Benny, Violet, Jessie, and Henry Alden. They eventually find their grandfather and they are working in a candy factory. Strange things are going on in the factory and the workers are acting like they do not want to be with the Aldens. Read this book to find out who was causing the problems at the candy factory.

I liked this book because it is a mystery and I like to try and figure it out before it ends. I think other school aged children would like this book. It is a series and there are more books to read about the Aldens.

I think the author wrote this because she wanted people to read mysteries and have imagination.