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A summer spent in doing light housekeeping in a lighthouse proves to be a happy and adventurous time for the Boxcar children, as well as for their neighbor, Larry Cook, who does not want any friends.

The relatives come to visit from Virginia and everyone has a wonderful time.

As a sequel to Eight cousins, Rose Campbell, a young heiress, is not interested in marriage until she has a chance to prove she is a capable person in her own right.

The Alden children and their grandfather are hiking down from Flat Top when a rockslide reveals a cave with a big secret.

Hattie Owen prefers to be steeped in the familiarity of her small-town life rather than think about the vast world beyond her own. During the summer that Hattie turns 12, her world is turned upside down with the startling arrival of an uncle no one has ever spoken about.

"Ten years after the school at Plumfield was founded, Jo's boys--including wanderer Dan, sailor Emil and musician Nat--are grown up and discovering more about the world. But life after childhood can be confusing and frightening, and it is Jo and the warm-hearted March family who can comfort and guide the boys when they need it most."--Back cover.

Henry, Jessie, Benny, and Violet Alden meet Mike Wood and a strange chain of events begins. Mike's house is mysteriously burned down, a man in a blue hat appears, and the Alden's uranium mine is in danger of being sabotaged. The four youngsters solve the mystery.

Jonah, thirteen, and Katherine, eleven, travel through time to 1918 Russia just as Alexei, Anastasia, and the rest of Tsar Nicholas II's family is about to be executed. Author's note includes facts about the Romanov's and the mystery surrounding their deaths.

The Alden family rents a houseboat to drift down the river, and encounters a mystery in the little towns along the river, involving a fast black car.

A family befriends a stray dog, names him Willy, and decides to keep him.