The Box-Car Children

A 1924 children's novel about four orphaned siblings who run away rather than be sent to a grandfather they fear, hiding in a haystack and an abandoned boxcar as they try to live independently together.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

Topic

Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic adventure and the sea›Boyhood, camps, and scout troops›Boyhood at home and in town

Reader

First readers›Early chapter books›Adventure and the sea