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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  **Benny Uncovers a Mystery**
  
   **GERTRUDE CHANDLER WARNER**  
   **Illustrated by David Cunningham**
  
   **ALBERT WHITMAN & Company, Chicago, Illinois**
  
    
    
  
  Miss Warner wishes  
  to thank everyone  
  who helped in any way  
  on this book.
  
   **Contents**
  
  CHAPTER
  
  1 No Lazy Days for Benny
  
  2 Wanted: A Summer Job
  
  3 The Aldens Make an Enemy
  
  4 A Mysterious Shopper
  
  5 The Hidden House
  
  6 Who Wrote the Letters?
  
  7 A New Puzzle
  
  8 Henry’s Adventure
  
  9 Benny Has Ideas
  
  10 Answers at Last
  
  About the Author
  
   **CHAPTER** **1**
  
   _ **No Lazy Days for Benny**_
  
   **I** t was a hot, lazy morning, that last day of July. Not a leaf stirred in
  the huge maple tree in the Alden front yard. Even the birds were still.
  
  Henry Alden sat on the grass with his back against a tree trunk. He was
  holding a book he was supposed to read for college in the fall. But he didn’t
  feel like reading.
  
  His sister Jessie sat with her back against another tree, not moving. Violet
  was lying on the 