title: The Boxcar Children Guide to Adventure: A How-To for Mystery Solving, Make-It-Yourself Projects, and More (The Boxcar Children Mysteries)
author:  Gertrude Chandler Warner 
description: 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 its success, she went on to write eighteen more stories about the Alden Children.
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  **Mystery of the Lost Mine**
  
   **GERTRUDE CHANDLER WARNER**
  
   **Illustrated by Charles Tang**
  
   **ALBERT WHITMAN & Company, Chicago**
  
   **Contents**
  
  CHAPTER
  
  1 The New Boxcar
  
  2 A New Adventure
  
  3 Benny’s Gold
  
  4 A Warning
  
  5 Where Is Jake
  
  6 Lights Out
  
  7 Lost
  
  8 The Storm
  
  9 One Mystery Solved
  
  10 Benny’s Surprise
  
  About the Author
  
   **CHAPTER 1**
  
   **The New Boxcar**
  
  “Turn left,” said Henry Alden. Leaning forward from the passenger seat, he
  pointed at a graveled road. “RV Haven should be about two miles down this
  road.”
  
  “Roger,” said Grandfather as he steered the big mobile home off the main
  highway.
  
  Benny looked up from the map Henry had given him to fold. He sat on the bench
  seat behind his big brother.
  
  “Roger?” he repeated. “Henry’s name isn’t Roger.”
  
  Grandfather laughed. “That’s navigator talk. Henry has been an excellent one
  since we left Greenfield.”
  
  “What’s a nav—?” six-year-old Benny began.
  
  “A direction finder,” answered Jessie, who was t