Blue Bay Mystery (The Boxcar Children Mysteries)

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The Aldens find a castaway on a South Sea island. How did he get there and who is he? Paperback , pages. The Boxcar Children 6. United States of America. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Blue Bay Mystery , please sign up. See 1 question about Blue Bay Mystery…. Lists with This Book. Sep 06, Meredith Buchanan rated it liked it. Last time the children knew Grandfather was up to something because he seemed angry. It really gives you some insight into day-to-day life with Grandfather, when any hint of emotion is an anomaly to be noted.

I can only imagine that his normal state of being i Last time the children knew Grandfather was up to something because he seemed angry. I can only imagine that his normal state of being is a kind of catatonic, drugged out bliss—with blank eyes and a frozen expression of nothingness. This time Grandfather has surprised his brood of orphans with a trip to the South Seas!

Lars got shipwrecked on this deserted island for an indeterminate amount of time, and it was so much fun! He just decrees it so, and no one bats an eye. And for some reason Mike Wood is also going—apparently Benny is the only one that has friends.

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In Surprise Island, all the other children had at least one other friend, but I think that they were just rentals. Grandfather has been corresponding with Mike but not his mother, I presume about the trip—Benny mentions in passing that he had noticed his childlike scrawl on incoming envelopes, but I guess nothing about Grandfather exchanging letters with a seven year old seemed mysterious?

I suspect that Mike has some dirt on Grandfather, possibly something about an entire town suffering from uranium poisoning, and JH is trying to placate him with a fabulous vacation. Perhaps a vacation where a small boy could easily go astray and get left behind. Or eaten by the sharks that abound in Blue Bay. So he has their teachers create unique textbooks for each child, individually bound, color-coded, and stamped with their names in gold. Of course, the books are violet for Violet, red for Benny, green for Henry, and blue for Jessie, because everything they own is one single shade.

Even their suitcases follow their stringent color guidelines. He obviously chooses color coding instead since the whistle would probably aggravate his hangover and you can see colors when you just barely open your eyes. Naturally, Grandfather flies the children to the ship on his private jet. Mike Wood is waiting unaccompanied on the airstrip, his mother probably sick with worry back at the mine, unable to make a single pie.

Every morning Grandfather rings a school bell, and every day, fortuitously, whatever the children see in the ocean is exactly what is outlined that day in their specialized textbooks. Joe probably pointed out how much they enjoyed naming the different kinds of seaweed red seaweed, pink seaweed, etc.

Look at this bag of seaweed! This is the part of the story where I become certain there are drugs somewhere on that boat. The group heads out into the lifeboat and makes it to the island in about three seconds. Lars warns them not to swim in the bay because they will get eaten by killer sharks. I am disappointed to realize that Grandfather is uncharacteristically accompanying them on this trip. There is only one explanation—Grandfather is trying out a cheap rehab program. Fortunately, there is sugarcane on this island, so if he gets desperate he can always try to rig up a still out of some shells and a coconut husk.

Predictably, the next twenty pages describe dinner. Everyone decides to carve themselves a spoon, except Violet of course who is too delicate. And then Jessie finds the perfect place to wash the dishes. You can tell this is a real vacation, because Jessie lets everyone wash their own dishes. She is really taking it easy. Remember her despair about washing the dump dishes in cold water? A little fish poo never hurt anyone.

The next morning Grandfather wakes up craving his fix. Now Grandfather will never get clean. I hope that Grandfather appreciates her sacrifice when he sobers up and sees her unraveling the blankets for thread. After breakfast, the children go exploring, and unsurprisingly find an enormous, Easter-island type statue in about five seconds.

This priceless archeological find hardly phases our heroes, who are mostly just interested in finding tidal pools and colored seaweed. Joe practically peed his pants with excitement about the arrowheads on Surprise Island. In the next ten minutes, about fifteen mysterious things have happened, including an unripe coconut falling from a tree, and the discovery of what appears to be installation artwork in a tide pool.

Instead of preserving the mysterious artwork, the Aldens immediately utilize it as cookware. Take a bath hippie, the Aldens would say. They have fish stew to make, and they need a kettle. I personally love how they decided to make fish stew long before anyone found the shell, which is just exactly what they need. The group goes down to the old fishing hole to catch the ingredients for their new turtle kettle—but Lars only has enough fishing lines for the boys.

Eventually someone Henry maybe? I drifted off there for a bit lands the grouper, and we can go back to the huts. An extensive description of cleaning and cooking the fish follows. Nothing mysterious happens during the food preparation. They spend the next chapter updating us on the stew preparation, discussing Peter, and planning their next meal. Henry thinks it will be pretty exciting if Peter is on the island right now. Grandfather does not like it when Violet is upset.

Speaking of rolling heads, Mike preempts Benny and renames Blue Bay Shark Bay, lest they forget about the danger lurking beneath the lovely blue water. Nothing else could explain how chill he is about the situation. Several chapters of island fun follow. Even Mike has relinquished his independence and sense of individuality by now. Since there are a lot of mysterious things going on, they decide to head inland into the untamed wilderness. I can totally see Violet sobbing her eyes out over the mutilation of those poor, helpless plants and their displacement from their home on the jungle path.

Anyway, Grandfather is having his nap come hell or high water, so he sends Lars after the kids to keep an eye on them. Meanwhile, the kids are traipsing through the wilderness without a care in the world. All of the other Aldens scramble up the rocks, leaving poor little Violet to fend for herself. Fortunately, Mike remembers that she is a special snowflake melting in the tropical heat, and he helps her climb up.

Benny sees something leaping through the trees and he goes tearing off through the jungle after it. This should give you an idea of how engrossed everyone is in watching Mike try out the bed in the boxcar cave. Anyway, Benny is following the mystery man in the trees sadly not the original Mystery Man, Mr.

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That would have been an amazing twist. Most people would be alarmed to be trapped in a pit on a remote island possibly populated by cannibals after having run off into the jungle without telling anyone where they were going. If he was concerned about crocodiles or piranhas, then yeah, maybe, but just water?

Fortunately, a shaggy head pops over the rim in just a few minutes. Also, what was Peter planning on trapping in this giant hole?

Also, what did he dig this huge pit with? Walking into their camp and introducing himself was too intimidating, but he felt that greeting them after they fell into a giant hole that he created would be the perfect opportunity to make polite introductions. Peter and Benny become best friends in a normal, two minute span, and the group leads him back to their huts. Despite being shipwrecked for less than seven months, and only alone for three weeks read the rest of the review here: View all 3 comments. Oct 09, C. Bonham rated it really liked it. Really liked this one, it felt more like the first book in the series did.

The Alden's are stranded on a tropical island. They need to get their own food, make their own dishes and even build their own shelters. This was no shipwreck though, they did it on purpose. As always Grandfather knows how his grand-kids love to fend for themselves so this time around he orchestrates a tropical getaway for them.

This book is special though because unlike the previous books this time Grandfather Alden comes Really liked this one, it felt more like the first book in the series did. This book is special though because unlike the previous books this time Grandfather Alden comes along for the adventure. After five books of the Grandfather being almost like a part time character it is exciting to have him stick it out for the whole story.

Now it is easy to see that this self-sufficiency runs in the family. One more surprise, on this island the Alden's discover that they are not alone. View all 4 comments. May 10, Bri rated it really liked it Shelves: Dec 18, Maddie Kampf rated it it was amazing Shelves: Kampf's Reading Small Group: We loved that it was a mystery, but not too serious of a mystery, it was a lot of fun.

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It gave lots of clues throughout that allowed the reader to make predictions about what was going to happen. The clues were found in very unusual places. There is a lot of action, such as little Benny falling into a whole! It was definitely a five star mystery because it had a sweet and happy ending. We also enjoyed the climax as it was very exciting. We really loved the setti Mrs. We really loved the setting of this book. After all, who doesn't love a tropical island. Mar 24, Nevada Libert rated it really liked it Shelves: May 02, Dharia Scarab rated it liked it.

My love of reading started when i was young, and it gives me immense pleasure to provide books to Spread the Word Nevada, an organization that passes them on to children in the community. They are a terrific organization supporting an important cause. If your local I encourage you to check them out. For those living further a field, look in your own community, their may already be a similar program in place. And if not, you can always help start one. Sometimes I'll find a book I remember reading when I was young and will read it again before passing it on. I don't rate these books using my normal scale, instead I give most of them three stars.

This isn't a Criticism of the book, simply my way of rating them as good for children. Oct 05, Carter added it. The alden family go on an adventure that grandfather's friend has been to that they think is now deserted. The island seems to be covering a mystery that they need to uncover. And so to speak benny finds something awesome. At first peter is like a ghost for the alden family. And then they find out that he might be a bird.

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And then they find out that he's a boy that was deserted on this island to and was occupied by a man and might have lost his family on the boat wreck. And the The alden family go on an adventure that grandfather's friend has been to that they think is now deserted. And they found out that peter has the last name as benny's teacher but there not relatives. My thoughts on this book is I really liked it it was good from the start. The thoughts I had when I first started reading it was oh it's just another box car book.

I liked it when I found out it was so exciting. Nov 22, Laura Cushing rated it really liked it. For those just tuning in, I am reading this classic children's series free on Kindle Unlimited. In this installment, the children's fabulously wealthy grandfather takes them and Benny's friend Mike to vacation on an uncharted island with a sailor named Lars who had been shipwrecked there three years ago.

Because this is the s and it is a series for children, no one gets eaten by sharks and Lars is a good role model for the children. The book like all books in the series emphasizes the value For those just tuning in, I am reading this classic children's series free on Kindle Unlimited.

The book like all books in the series emphasizes the value of hard work and independence. A little mystery and adventure and 50s family fun, though today's kids would likely still enjoy it. I'm liking the series enough to keep reading, though I wish I'd have read them as a kid to get the full experience.

Jun 09, Sheri S. I really like the wholesomeness of this book series and the kindness, respect and politeness the characters demonstrate towards one another. This particular book is about another one of the adventures the family goes on to what they believe to be a deserted island.

They bring some provisions but plan on using what they can find i. A few mysterious events happen which lead the family to believe they may not be alone on the island. Benny disco I really like the wholesomeness of this book series and the kindness, respect and politeness the characters demonstrate towards one another. Benny discovers they are, in fact, not alone and the family works together to provide assistance to an individual in need. Dec 16, Gabby Proxmire rated it really liked it. The island has no population on it and it is a relaxing vacation. Until they find out that there is more than just them on the island.

This book is exciting when, Benny finds out that there is a little boy on the island and he is standing right in front of Benny. It is happy when Henry, Violet, Jessie, and Benny find the little boy's parents, back on the main land. This book is recommended to middle schoolers because the characters in theese books are middle school age kids. Dec 12, Misbah rated it really liked it Shelves: This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers.

To view it, click here. The Alden family go with a family friend to a deserted island. Lars, the family friend, was stranded on that island a few years ago and had a great time. They all learn how to survive on an island have a great time exploring. But soon they feel like someone else is on the island with them. One day while exploring Ben runs into a little boy named Peter. They learn from Peter he has been stuck on the island since a shipwreck 6 months ago. His parents were also on the ship and he doesn't know wheth The Alden family go with a family friend to a deserted island.

His parents were also on the ship and he doesn't know whether they survived.