The Boxcar Children

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The Boxcar Children

• Written by
• Gertrude Chandler
• Warner
• Presented by
• Simran Chugani

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Book and Genre

• I choose the Boxcar Children for my PowerPoint
  because I read the back of the book and thought
  it was a good mystery to read.
• The genre of this book is fiction

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Authors Purpose

• Gertrude Chandler Warners purpose of writing
  this story is to entertain the reader.

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Characters and Setting

• Henry
• Jessie
• Violet
• Benny

• The setting of the story is in Greenfield,
  Massechussets.

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Beginning

• The beginning of the story is that there are
• four children named Henry,Jessie,Viloet,
• Benny.They lived all by themselves because
• their father and mother passed away.
• So, one day they were very hungry and they
• stopped at a bakery. They ate bread and milk.
• When they were done, Henry asked the store
• keeper if they could stay at the bakery for
• one night.They did.When the bakery owners
• were about to leave they said,The little one
• has to go but the others can stay.Henry and
• Jessie heard what they said.

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Middle

• In the middle of the night,they woke everybody up
  and ran away.They ran to a
• farm.They built beds out of pine needles, and
• slept all day.When it was night again they
• ate, and then moved to a forest. Jessie
• noticed it started to rain.She found a
• boxcar then, woke everybody up and they
• all went and slept in the boxcar.That
• morning they all woke up and started
• looking for something to eat.

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End

• So then Henry found a job to mow the
• lawn.So everybody helped.That night
• Violet was laughing so hard she got sick.They
• took her to where they worked.She got
• better soon.When she got better,their
• uncle went to visit them.Then Henry,Jessie,
• Violet and Benny went to go live with their
• uncle.

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Summary

• Once Upon a time there were four children
• named Henry,Jessie,Violet and Benny.
• They lived together happily.One day they
• stopped at a Bakery.They had some bread
• and milk.They slept at the bakery overnight.
• Then in the middle of the night they went to
• a farm and made beds for themselves.
• Then the next night they moved to the woods.Then
  it started to rain so they went to
• live with their Uncle.

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Opinion

• My opinion about this book is that
• It is a good book for 2-4 graders.It
• Is about four children that have
• amazing adventures.

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Student Page

• My name is Simran. My
• birthday is on August
• 4th. I am 8 and a half
• years old. My
• hometown is Mumbai,
• India. My hobbies
• are building,writing and
• drawing.When I
• grow up I want to be an
• author. That is all
• about me.

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