Books by Patricia MacLachlan
The Boxcar Children Beginning - The Aldens of Fair Meadow Farm by Patricia MacLachlan (2012)
In the year before they become the orphans known as the Boxcar children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden live with their parents at Fair Meadow Farm, where, although times are hard, they take in a family who has been stranded in their car during a blizzard.