title: Benny's Saturday Surprise (Boxcar Children Early Reader #8) (The Adventures of Benny & Watch)
author:  Gertrude Chandler Warner 
description: Benny likes Saturdays because he doesn't have to go to school. But one Saturday everything seems to go wrong.
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  **The Mystery of the Purple Pool**
  
  GERTRUDE CHANDLER WARNER  
  Illustrated by Charles Tang
  
  ALBERT WHITMAN & Company, Chicago
  
   _ **Contents**_
  
  CHAPTER
  
  1 A Big Surprise
  
  2 Here We Come!
  
  3 The Purple Pool
  
  4 The Switch
  
  5 The Angry Guests
  
  6 A Spectacular View
  
  7 Stuck!
  
  8 Who Did It?
  
  9 The Phone Call
  
  10 The Letter
  
  11 The Mystery Man
  
  About the Author
  
   **CHAPTER 1**
  
   _ **A Big Surprise**_
  
  The Alden children were all in the living room of their grandfather’s big,
  comfortable house in Greenfield.
  
  Benny sat on a window seat, gazing out. Rain splattered against the cold
  glass. Benny sighed. “Isn’t it _ever_ going to stop? It’s been raining for
  _four_ days, and I’m bored.”
  
  Henry looked up from the book he was reading and said to his six-year-old
  brother, “Come on, Benny, we’ll play some checkers.”
  
  Benny shook his head. “Thanks, Henry, but I’ve played a million games of
  checkers in the last few days.”
  
  Henry laughed. “Well, not _quite_ a million games.