The Mystery in the Computer Game - The Boxcar Children Mysteries

Jacket Description/Flap: The Aldens test out a new computer game in which characters talk about places and people in Greenfield. Brief Description: Rainy days have kept the Alden children indoors, playing their favorite computer game Ringmaster. The Aldens get a chance to "test out" Ringmaster II before it's released to the public. But when they play, they find characters in the game who are talking about people and places in Greenfield! Is someone at the computer game company trying to get a message to the Aldens? Illustrations. Jacket Description/Back: One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather and a new computer to play games on!During a visit to a computer game company, the Aldens meet the designers of their favorite game: Ringmaster. When the designers learn the Aldens are Ringmaster experts, they ask for their help. Would the Aldens test the new version of the game before it is sent out to stores? The Aldens gladly agree. But soon, the characters in Ringmaster II are giving the Aldens strange clues about people and places in real life! Is someone using the computer game to tell them something is wrong? The Boxcar Children are determined to find out!Brief Description: The Aldens, while testing the latest version of their favorite computer game, are surprised to find messages directed specifically at them. Publisher Marketing: The Aldens enjoy playing their favorite computer game, Ringmaster. They get a chance to "test out" Ringmaster II before it's released to the public. But strange things happen when they begin to play the game. Review Citations:

Publishers Weekly 07/14/2003 (EAN 9781589261266, Compact Disc)

Publishers Weekly 07/14/2003 (EAN 9781589261204, Analog Audio Cassette)

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.