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Original Title: Bus Station Mystery (The Boxcar Children, #18)
ISBN: 0807509760 (ISBN13: 9780807509760)
Edition Language: English
Series: The Boxcar Children #18
Characters: Jessie Alden, Benny Alden, Violet Alden, Henry Alden
Setting: United States of America
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Bus Station Mystery (The Boxcar Children #18) Paperback | Pages: 128 pages
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Some historical context here: Bus Station Mystery was originally published in 1974. It was only two years earlier that the insecticide DDT was banned. The Endangered Species act was signed at the tail end of 1973, just before this book came out on shelves. So the environmentalist message here was very much topical!

It is also, because Warner was very conscious about writing a simplified story, with simple language, HILARIOUS. Mr. Pickett, of Pickett's Perfect Paints factory, has been polluting the river with his horrible manufacturing processes! The fish are all dying and the town stinks! The EPA was only formed in 1970, and so one can assume Mr. Pickett rolled up his sleeves and gave any barebones regulations two middle fingers. I mean, it was the 1970s. Even Frank the angry chemist activist bus station restaurant owner (LOL) was probably sitting inside an asbestos-lined bus station. Who knows! Anyway, the story ends in a TOWN HALL MEETING where the CONCERNED CITIZENS stand up and give Mr. Pickett a piece of their minds! Mr. Pickett is so sorry, but... but.... profits? Luckily, the Aldens to the rescue! I have to quote this entire thing; it's incredible:
Mr. Pickett stood up [...] "I do want to be a good neighbor to Frank and to everyone. But who can show me how to run my factory and keep the river clean?"

[...] Mr. Alden stood up and smiled. [...] "I have had some of the same troubles in my plastics factories that you have had," he explained. "Bad odors. Polluted water. In my plants we have found a way to burn the bad-smelling gases before they go up the chimney. We need a great deal of water. But we use the same water over and over. Not a bit of dirty water empties into any river or sewer."

"None?" asked Mr. Pickett.

"None. The dirty water goes into big tanks. The dirt and pollution settle to the bottom of the tanks. Clean water rises to the top. It can be used again, and the tanks are cleaned out to hold more water."

Mr. Pickett was listening carefully.

Mr. Alden continued, "You probably have a dust problem in your factory, too. That's not bad for the river, but it is bad for your workers. We use a huge suction machine to ull the dust out of the air so that the air is safe to breathe. [...] If Mr. Pickett agrees, I'll be glad to take him to my factories and show him what we do. My men will explain how the air and water are kept clean. I will be happy to talk with him about the business details."

Then Grandfather Alden and Mr. Pickett shake hands, and EVERYONE IN THE ROOM CLAPS.

- Mr. Pickett is a Good Capitalist, and so is Mr. Alden, so now it is OK for him to be filthy rich, buying his grandchildren entire lighthouses and shit
- Yes, I will just love dumping millions of dollars into cleaning up his factories because I care about not exploiting my cheap labor, said no manufacturing company ever
- I can't believe Grandpa Alden just mansplained a water treatment plant to a guy who is presumably about his age and understands what these things are LMAO
- Mr. Pickett just straight up admits he's giving his workers black lung disease or whatever is going on in this dusty, carcinogen-riddled factory. Enjoy those lawsuits!
- Honestly my theory about Mafia Don James Alden is only growing. Look at how happy he is to snare Mr. Pickett into "business details". He's gonna buy out this dude's company. He is gonna put this guy in debt. AMAZING
- There's also an issue earlier in the book where Frank the bus station owner is in danger of losing his home because Mr. Pickett wants to plow it all for a parking lot, and has bought all the surrounding area already. I just want to say that these 3rd-grade-level books are not the place to discuss easements, but come ON, Mr. Pickett! I don't think that's legal! Where else are you prepared to cut corners, huh? Huh???

I'm not gonna lie, though, the simplicity of the Rich Factory Owner giving up in the course of one town hall meeting makes me want to boot Scott Pruitt back into this book series and wait for Gramps Alden to throw him into a waste treatment plant.

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Title:Bus Station Mystery (The Boxcar Children #18)
Author:Gertrude Chandler Warner
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 128 pages
Published:January 1st 1991 by Albert Whitman Company (first published 1974)
Categories:Mystery. Childrens. Fiction

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Really quick read. There were s many unanswered questions, I just couldn't stop reading it.

One of my favorite childhood series. I read over a hundred of them. The first 50 or so were in order; after that I read whatever book I could get my hands on :)

On the way to the Carnival, the Alden kids discover a mystery at the bus station that involves the Bus Station manager and two young boys. The Aldens soon learn that there is a chemical plant polluting the water and the two boys are picketing against it. They get their grandpa involved and go attend the town meeting regarding the chemical plant and whether it should be shut down. The townspeople vote to close down the plant but Mr. Alden steps in with a better plan. He had the same issues with

I loved this book and how clever all the characters are in this series.

Great children's mystery!

This was another fun Boxcar children read, the extra star is for the focus on pollution and the environment. Violet was barely allowed to speak, which was disappointing, but was otherwise this book was par for the Boxcar course. I would recommend to those dutiful fans of the Boxcar series, or any looking for an introductory chapter book.

The Boxcar Children = most read series between the ages of 6 and 9 for me. I think of these fondly. Every child should read this series.