Gertrude Chandler Warner

The Mystery of the Secret Message Gertrude Chandler Warner

Brief Description: While helping their grandfather prepare for Greenfield's Winter Festival, the Alden children uncover a mystery surrounding the statue in the town square. Jacket Description/Flap: A photograph of the statue of a Revolutionary War hero contains a secret message.

Contributor Bio:  Warner, Gertrude Chandler 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.