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The Boxcar Children Graphic Novels #16
Houseboat Mystery
While the Alden children are on a houseboat for a week, someone is watching them and wants something on their boat and he'll stop at nothing to get it.
32 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2011
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July 14, 2018
My oldest checked this book out at the library and I couldn't resist reading about the classic Boxcar Children. Houseboat Mystery is about the boxcar children spending a week on a houseboat. The children soon realize that they are being watched by someone. It appears they want something that is on the houseboat but what is it? The children use their detective skills to find out.
February 21, 2013
Audience: This graphic novel series was adapted for intermediate grade readers 3rd thru 6th grade. It's simple, but the mysterious story line is geared more towards 3rd-4th grade.
Appeal: This classic series has been adapted into a graphic novel series that would appeal to intermediate grades 3rd-4th. It is a simple read that offers suspense and mystery. If the kids loved Scoobie Doo when they were younger than they will love reading how the Alden family solves the "Houseboat Mystery". I do think primary readers would love the pictures and imagining and could conjure up their own story line to the pictures.
Application: This series would be great to use when introducing graphic novels to the students. I would have a whole class discussion on what a graphic novel is, how is it different from other books, and the different ways to use a graphic novel(fiction/non-fiction). As an activity I would have the students make their own small graphic novel mystery. To introduce to primary readers you could have students write simple sentences in blank bubbles of your own graphic novel.
Copyright: 2010
Appeal: This classic series has been adapted into a graphic novel series that would appeal to intermediate grades 3rd-4th. It is a simple read that offers suspense and mystery. If the kids loved Scoobie Doo when they were younger than they will love reading how the Alden family solves the "Houseboat Mystery". I do think primary readers would love the pictures and imagining and could conjure up their own story line to the pictures.
Application: This series would be great to use when introducing graphic novels to the students. I would have a whole class discussion on what a graphic novel is, how is it different from other books, and the different ways to use a graphic novel(fiction/non-fiction). As an activity I would have the students make their own small graphic novel mystery. To introduce to primary readers you could have students write simple sentences in blank bubbles of your own graphic novel.
Copyright: 2010
March 24, 2011
Our girls are discovering graphic novels, which is great, except that our youngest is not yet ready to read them on her own and she wants me to read them aloud. I find that to be very difficult and irritating, but I do it anyway. And they love it.
This is a short and actually fairly simple graphic novel to read aloud. The illustrations are great and the story is exciting and interesting. I still think that I would prefer to read the original tales and I will press to do so at every opportunity, but I can see the allure of these shiny, glossy, and short tales.
This is a short and actually fairly simple graphic novel to read aloud. The illustrations are great and the story is exciting and interesting. I still think that I would prefer to read the original tales and I will press to do so at every opportunity, but I can see the allure of these shiny, glossy, and short tales.
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