The Boxcar Children Beginning: The Aldens of Fair Meadow Farm by Patricia MacLachlan
This Boxcar Children prequel was written almost a century after the original. The kids were living happily on the farm with their family. A family has car trouble and comes to stay with them. They become friends and work together to put on a circus, complete with "elephants". The kids are sad when the part to fix the car arrives and they must part. The kids also work together to make buns for their parents to take to the market. Then the book suddenly ends with them hearing from the police that their parents have died in a car crash and they must find family to live with. The book is a fine story on its own, but the linkage to the death of parents and the first Boxcar children book feels artificially tacked onto the end.
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