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The Pumpkin Head Mystery

by Gertrude Chandler Warner, Robert Papp · 2010

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This fall-flavored adventure for the Boxcar Children takes the Aldens to a New England farm that has more than its share of strange occurrences. Every year at the Beckett farm, visitors come to buy pumpkins and go on hayrides, but this year something is haunting the old place—a mysterious specter with a glowing pumpkin head that warns guests to stay away! It's up to the Aldens to find out who—or what—is behind the scare.

Genre
mysterymysteryMore like thisLess of this
Themes
childhoodchildhoodMore like thisLess of this
Setting
HalloweenHalloweenMore like thisLess of this
Audience
childrens
Length
short · 128 pages

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