The Mystery of the Grinning Gargoyle

Brief Description: When the Aldens visit a university campus, they must solve a mystery involving an old library whose stone gargoyles seem to move on their own. Marc Notes: ; When the Aldens visit a university campus, they must solve a mystery involving an old library whose stone gargoyles seem to move on their own.. Publisher Marketing: The Aldens visit Goldwin University, where Grandfather attended college. The old library is about to be torn down. But legend says the stone gargoyles guarding the roof of the old building will do anything to protect it--even fly. When the creatures begin appearing outside the windows, people are terrified. But the Boxcar Children think there is another reason the gargoyles are turning up in places they shouldn't. And they're determined to figure it out.

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.