At an old library, the Alden children discover a boy who needs their help and a stranger who is after a valuable object they found in the library

At an old library, the Alden children discover a boy who needs their help and a stranger who is after a valuable object they found in the library 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 the book's success, she went on to write eighteen more stories about the Alden children.