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Tonight we'll read from The Boxcar Children written by first grade school teacher Gertrude Chandler Warner and published in 1924.

The Boxcar Children tells the story of four orphan children, Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny.

They create a home for themselves and an abandoned boxcar in the forest.

They eventually meet their grandfather who was a wealthy and kind man, although the children had believed him to be cruel.

As she wrote this story, Warner read it aloud to her classes and rewrote it many times to make it easy to understand and enjoyable.

Let's get cozy.

Close your eyes.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now take a few deep breaths.

About seven o'clock, one hot summer evening, a strange family moved into the little village of Middlesex.

Nobody knew where they came from or who they were, but the neighbors soon made up their minds when they thought of the strangers.

There was a glimpse of a 13 year old boy.

Toward eight o'clock, a pretty capable looking girl of 12 came out of the house and bought a loaf of bread at the bakers.

And that was all the villagers learned about the newcomers that night.

There are four children said the bake shopwoman to her husband the next day.

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