Bobbsey Twins
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The Bobbsey Twins are the principal characters of what was, for 75 years, the Stratemeyer Syndicate's longest-running series of American children's novels, written under the pseudonym Laura Lee Hope.
Cover of The Bobbsey Twins, circa 1908
The Hardy Boys
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The Hardy Boys, brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, are fictional characters who appear in a series of mystery novels for young readers. The series revolves around teenage amateur sleuths, solving cases tha
Bobbsey Twins
…perpetually 12 years old and the younger set 6. The earliest Bobbsey books were mainly episodic strings of adventures; with the growing popularity of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, detective plots began to dominate the series. Few of the mysteries involved violent crime, and quite a few did not involve any crime…
Cover of The Tower Treasure, the first Hardy Boys mystery
Edward Stratemeyer, creator of the Hardy Boys and founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate
Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X dust jacket Project Gutenberg e Text 17985