Gertrude Chandler Warner

The Giant Yo-Yo Mystery - The Boxcar Children Mysteries Gertrude Chandler Warner

Jacket Description/Flap: Someone tries to sabotage the world's largest yo-yo!Brief Description: When the Aldens help a friend of their grandfather's to build the world's largest yo-yo, they soon discover that more than one person is trying to prevent them from finishing the job--and for more than one reason. Marc Notes: ; When the Aldens help a friend of their grandfather's to build the world's largest yo-yo, they soon discover that more than one person is trying to prevent them from finishing the job--and for more than one reason.; 1; 007-012. Publisher Marketing: The Aldens are helping one of Grandfather's friends break a world record by building the world's largest yo-yo! But someone follows them, and then the plans for the yo-yo turn up missing. Someone is trying to sabotage the yo-yo before it's launched!

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. Contributor Bio:  Papp, Robert Robert Papp has won awards nationwide, but he is most proud of the reaction his paintings receive from children. He lives in Pennsylvania with his artist wife, Lisa, and their cat, Taffy.