<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The Aldens are delighted to learn that their grandfather's friend, Mrs. Ashleigh, has a pirate for an ancestor! When they visit her in Charleston, South Carolina, a hurricane helps them uncover some crooks--and the pirate's treasure! Illustrated.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The Aldens visit South Carolina and learn a friend of theirs has an ancestor who was a pirate! They hunt for the pirate's hidden treasure, but someone else is looking for it too. Can the Boxcar Children find it before the next big storm hits the coast?</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Gertrude Chandler Warner</b> 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 the book's success, she went on to write eighteen more stories about the Alden children.