“Ned, honk the horn!” I shouted. ~ Nancy Drew Girl Detective series
Joe started honking the horn. He leaned his head out the car window and yelled, “Dude, don’t shoot. We’ve got to go. Just trust us. This is an emergency.” ~ Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers series
At five o’clock the two friends drove to the warehouse and Frank gave the code honk. ~ The Hardy Boys series
Looking for Hardy Boys books? Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers? Hardy Boys Clue Books? Nancy Drew books? Nancy Drew Notebooks? Nancy Drew Clue Crew? Nancy Drew Files? For Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew fans who read ebooks – there’s a .99 sale going for @Kindle @iTunes @ BAM! Books-A-Million (and probably other online booksellers!) for some of the volumes in the previously mentioned series! It doesn’t say how long the sale is for. There are plenty of good ones to choose from. Some of them are ones I’ve been wanting to read as well as some I’ve read and love. 🙂 Excellent summer reading!!!!!! 😎
Here are a few Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew book recommendations from me – great for reading in ebook (all these I’ve listed here are some of the ones for .99!) or paperback ~
The Hardy Boys #138 Alaskan Adventure
The Hardy Boys #148 The Ice-Cold Case
The Hardy Boys #150 The Crisscross Crime
The Hardy Boys #152 Danger in the Extreme
The Hardy Boys #155 The Hunt for the Four Brothers
The Hardy Boys #161 Training for Trouble
The Hardy Boys #183 Warehouse Rumble
Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers #19 Foul Play
Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers #21 Comic Con Artist
Nancy Drew #153 Whispers in the Fog
Nancy Drew #157 The Music Festival Mystery
Kindle books you can read on a computer, Kindle app on various devices, or on a Kindle ereader.
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Here are some of the details on volume 13 in the Hardy Boys Adventures series ~
Title: Hardy Boys Adventures #13 Bound for Danger
Release Date: Oct. 11, 2016
Number of pages: 160
Available Formats: Paperback, Hardcover and eBook
Update ~ Cover: 
Sounds like from the title that the Hardy brothers are traveling somewhere – wonder where? 😎 Where do you hope they’re headed for? They can find adventure anywhere in the world. 🙂
Update Synopsis from Simon and Schuster:
Brother detectives Frank and Joe find themselves on the basketball court and in the midst of a dangerous team initiation scheme in this thrilling Hardy Boys adventure.
Joe and Frank are taken aback when Principal Gerther announces that they need more extracurriculars on their school transcript, and he’s signed them up for the basketball team. They think it’s odd because they both stink at basketball!
But the Hardys soon find out that their principal isn’t acting out of concern for their college applications; he wants them to solve a dangerous mystery on the team. It turns out that a band of masked players are kidnapping new team members and then beating them up, blackmailing them, and threatening them—all in an effort to boost performance.
Can the boys step up to the line and stop the shadiness?
Hardy fact: Frank and Joe don’t stink at basketball!
Thoughts on cover (nice action and cool background!) and synopsis (needs work), guys? 🙂
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A number of Hardy Boys books, such as Three Ring Terror, and Nancy Drew books, like Door-to-Door Deception are on sale for 1.99 at Kindle and iTunes! Also there are some of The Hardy Boys Clue Books, Nancy Drew Notebooks, and a few Girl Detective and ND Files.
To find the deals @ Amazon, in the search field, you can type in Franklin W. Dixon for Hardy Boys books then when you’re ready for the next search type in Carolyn Keene for Nancy Drew books. Once the results for each author’s search are displayed on your screen, to filter the titles and more quickly find the sale ones, select “Price: Low to High” – then start checking out the various titles! 🙂 Scroll down until you get to Hardy Boys books or Nancy Drew books (some of the Penny Parker listed there first are possibly in public domain so those are actually free elsewhere). For iTunes, search each author’s name and look for the 1.99 deals to jump out like clues to a detective as you sleuth for them! 🙂
For those not in the US, they should also be on sale. It’s not all of the Hardy Boys books and Nancy Drew books, just some. And remember, you can read Kindle books on your computer as well as various devices. iTunes eBooks can only be read on Apple devices with the iBooks app.
Here are a few ebook Kindle and iTunes links for Franklin W. Dixon (some I’ve read and some I need to!) ~
111 Three Ring Terror @ Amazon
111 Three Ring Terror @ iTunes
112 Demolition Mission @ Amazon
112 Demoltion Mission @ iTunes
154 Caribbean Cruise Caper @ Amazon
154 Caribbean Cruise Caper @ iTunes
158 London Deception @ Amazon
158 London Deception @ iTunes
These two Clues Brothers I’ve gotten to read in eBook and are well-written. They’re also at iTunes:
2 The Karate Clue @ Amazon
4 Jump-Shot Detectives @ Amazon
Here are a few ebook Kindle and iTunes links for Carolyn Keene ~
118 Trouble at Lake Tahoe @ Amazon
118 Trouble at Lake Tahoe @ iTunes
135 Riddle of the Ruby Gazelle @ Amazon
135 Riddle of the Ruby Gazelle @ iTunes
140 Door-to-Door Deception @ Amazon
140 Door-to-Door Deception @ iTunes
150 Mystery at Moorsea Manor @ Amazon
150 Mystery at Moorsea Manor @ iTunes
Not sure how long the sale is on for, maybe just for today. Check it out! Great summer sale for some excellent mysteries! 🙂 😎
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Move over Secret Files, there’s a new series coming in 2016 entitled Hardy Boys Clue 
Book! Hope it’ll be good. 🙂 Here are some of the details:
Title: #1 The Video Game Bandit
Illustrated by: Matt David
Release Date: 19th of April 2016
Number of Pages: 96
Available Formats: Paperback/eBook/hardcover
Update: Synopsis from Simon and Schuster:
Frank and Joe are on a mission to track down a thief in the first book in an all-new, interactive Hardy Boys chapter book mystery series. Includes space for readers to jot down their own ideas and solutions to the case!
Bayport Elementary is throwing a fundraiser so they can go on an end-of-the-year trip. Ellie Freeman’s parents have volunteered their house for the event, and neighbors have donated all sorts of prizes to be raffled off including movie tickets and gift certificates to Fun World. But the best prize of all is a brand-new ZCross50000, a video game system that every kid has been drooling over.
But sometime during the event, the ZCross goes missing. Can Frank and Joe figure out who took the prize before it’s too late to save the big school trip?
Title: #2 The Missing Playbook
Illustrated by: Matt David
Release Date: 19th of April 2016
Available Formats: Paperback/eBook/hardcover
Number of Pages: 96
Update: Synopsis from Simon and Schuster:
Frank and Joe try to hit a home run by figuring out what happened to the Bayport Bandits’ playbook before the first big baseball game in the second book in an all-new, interactive Hardy Boys chapter book mystery series. Includes space for readers to jot down their own ideas and solutions to the case!
Frank and Joe and the rest of their Bayport Bandits teammates can’t wait for Little League to start! Everyone is celebrating the beginning of the season at Speedy Zermino’s house. While they’re all together, Coach Quinn shows off the Bandit’s new playbook that contains all of the new strategies and plays that will help them to a winning season.
The next day at practice, Coach Quinn realizes the all-important playbook has gone missing! With their teammates counting on them to get the book back, Frank and Joe must take a swing at cracking this case…or their season will be over before it even begins.
The Nancy Drew Clue Book series coming in July replaces the Nancy Drew Clue Crew series. The first two titles, Pool Party Puzzler and Last Lemonade Standing, will be available on the 7th of July. Four titles have been announced so far in the new series. I really liked the Clue Crew series title because it gives cred to George and Bess and it rhymes. 😎
Like the Secret Files and Clue Crew, the price (US) will be 5.99 paperback/ebook. Unlike the Secret Files and Clue Crew, it says at the Simon and Schuster site that they’ll be available in hardcover, too.
So, whatcha think? Interested in the Hardy Boys Clue Book series or Nancy Drew Clue Book series? Vote on the poll! 🙂
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Now along with info on the Hardy family – Frank, Joe, Fenton, Laura, and Gertrude (aka Trudy) – I’ve posted details about Iola Morton and Callie Shaw. They’re the Hardy Boys’ girlfriends/true loves, and cool characters who’ve helped solve some really dangerous cases. 😎 Both Iola and Callie are smart, resourceful, brave, and vivacious – one of the words often used to describe each of them in The Hardy Boys books. It means lively and spirited, so it’s definitely a good thing to be vivacious. That and their other great qualities makes them excellent soul mate matches for the Hardy brothers. 🙂 Also fun to read about. And to write. 😎 The main characters are Frank and Joe, of course, and it’s good and important that there are additional great characters. Makes it more real. 😎
In addition to the Hardy family, Iola, along with her brother Chet, and Callie are the only other Hardy Boys book characters to be in the Papercutz graphic novels. 😎 Iola and Chet also have the cool distinction and honor to be in every book series with the Hardy Boys’ name in it along with the Hardy family. 😎 That’s trivia straight from the books. And coming soon to this blog: the start of The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew facts page. Be ready for interesting and intriguing facts and details from the books. 😎
Check out the Hardy Boys Book Characters to find out more. 🙂
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Guess what? Tomorrow, the 16th of May, is when the Hardy Boys’ books were first 
copyrighted! 😎 The real deal Hardy Boys’ series, aka The Hardy Boys Mysteries/The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories, ran from 1927, when the first three volumes in the series were released, to April of 2005 with the publication of #190 Motocross Madness. 😎 Checking out the online records of copyrights, including searching digital copies of public domain books for info, I found that in the U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1955 January – June, the first three Hardy Boys volumes – #1 The Tower Treasure, #2 The House on the Cliff, and #3 Secret of the Old Mill, were listed with the copyright date of May 16, 1927, and the copyrights were renewed on March 24, 1955. Edward Stratemeyer, who wrote the detailed outlines of the first Hardy Boys books and Nancy Drew books, published the first three volumes of The Hardy Boys series simultaneously in 1927. Seriously cool that the awesome brother team of Frank and Joe started in 1927 and went right into the 21st century. 😎
The details in this post about the first 3 Hardy Boys books refer to the revised editions, since those are the ones I know and have read – namely, the ones currently available now in print and ebook formats. The original first 38 mysteries were revised, then after that every title has one original, unrevised edition, with new stories written and published into this century. Volumes 1-58 can be found new in hardcover in print and some of the paperbacks. Thankfully many of the 190 mysteries can be found in ebook, with hopefully more to be released soon. 😎
In the first book, The Tower Treasure, a reader ready for mystery and action can meet most of the characters of the Hardy Boys series. Frank Hardy and Joe Hardy, crimefighting brothers, their parents, Fenton and Laura Hardy, friends Phil Cohen, Biff Hooper, Chet Morton, Tony Prito, and Jerry Gilroy, and you know that the brothers are dating their true loves – Joe’s Iola (Morton), and Frank’s Callie (Shaw). ❤ Frank and Joe’s Aunt Gertrude makes her first appearance in #3, The Secret of the Old Mill, as does their boat, the Sleuth.
The essential, real deal series, The Hardy Boys/The Hardy Boys Mysteries, about Frank and Joe, along with the other cool characters, contains a lot of excitement, bravery, danger, death-defying action, and risks as they fight evil people bent on destruction while escaping the numerous murderous attempts directed at them. They combat very serious and dangerous crimes with courage as well as making sure to keep it real by infusing such intense situations with humor and sarcasm. Throughout the series, those excellent characters, Frank, Joe, Fenton, Laura, Iola, Callie, Chet, Phil, Tony, from the first three Hardy Boys volumes do their best to do what’s right, not just what is the least dangerous or most popular even. And help is definitely needed in that path. It’s not the quantity of friends you have, but rather the quality. 😎
In the Hardy Boys #190, Motocross Madness, released in April of 2005, you can be up-to-date in the 21st century by seeing that the Hardy brothers’ girlfriends Iola, Callie, plus Chet along with the whole Hardy family are still going strong. 😎
Like Nancy, who has helped out the Hardy brothers on more than one occasion, Frank and Joe have many books available for us to read and enjoy their cool adventures and mysteries in The Hardy Boys series. And there have been alternate universes, including the currently running Hardy Boys Adventures and Secret Files. There are also games, including Treasure on the Tracks, and The Hidden Theft and The Perfect Crime. Plus the Nancy Drew games like Last Train to Blue Moon Canyon where they’re special guests (cool!), and the ones in which they’re phone guests. Also available are some excellent graphic novels from Papercutz, such as Sea You, Sea Me. If you want to read Hardy Boys fanfiction, ones based on the books can be found, although not all claiming to be HB fanfiction qualifies as having any resemblance at all to the books or characters, except for borrowing the names. 🙄
Let me know what you like best about the Hardys. 🙂 I haven’t read all of the Hardy Boys books in the series, but I have a large number of favorites, some hardcover, some paperback, and ebook. 😀 I love the action and exciting mysteries, the teamwork of the brothers with their loved ones, the humor, and the determination and bravery to stand up against evil and never backing down, which is also true of Nancy Drew. That resilience and integrity is not only commendable but very inspiring to each one of us, wherever we are and whatever situation we find ourselves in. 😎
Here’s the first ever poll at the Hardy and Drew Mysteries blog! Please vote and comment and invite others to come vote as well. Be ready for more polls to come! 😀
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As I mentioned in a previous post, the 28th of April, 2015 is the anniversary of when the exciting, much-loved, cool, popular series, Nancy Drew (Nancy Drew Mysteries/Nancy Drew Mystery Stories) began being published. The 85th anniversary to be exact. Mystery readers have had the opportunity to read Nancy’s thrilling adventures starting on this date in 1930, with the publication of the first three volumes, The Secret of the Old Clock, The Hidden Staircase, and The Bungalow Mystery. That was the start of another successful Edward Stratemeyer series, The Hardy Boys (The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories/The Hardy Boys Stories) series having been established in 1927. Both series being read and loved here and now in the 21st century. That’s pretty cool. The Nancy Drew series continued with new stories from 1930 until November 2003 with #175 (The Hardy Boys went to April 2005 with #190). I have a facsimile edition of books #1-#3 (unread as of yet) and I also have the revised editions, which I have read. 🙂 My favorite of the first three Nancy Drew books is #3 The Bungalow Mystery. 🙂
There are several essential characters who’ve helped Nancy a lot. Her dad, Carson, is a lawyer who loves his daughter, and although he’s always concerned for her safety, he’s super proud of her. Her boyfriend, Ned Nickerson, brave, loyal, and smart, lets Nancy know he loves her, not only by telling her, but also showing it with understanding and support. Hannah Gruen, the Drews’ housekeeper who’s been like a mother to Nancy. George Fayne and Bess Marvin, cousins who’ve stuck with Nancy through many dangerous situations. Also Helen Corning, a friend appearing in several books. And my favorite characters, the Hardy Boys, brothers Frank and Joe, fellow detectives and justice-seekers have worked with Nancy.
Important trivia if you don’t want to be wrong: Nancy was 16 years old in the first book. That means she isn’t 85 years old today – because she would have had to have been a baby in The Secret of the Old Clock – and maybe people really matured a lot quicker than us today, but she could drive a car, etc, so that’s just not in the realm of possibility for her to be an infant in the first book. So since she was 16 in the original, she would be 101, but with her being 18 in the revised edition of The Secret of the Old Clock, you could say she’s 103. But it is physically impossible for her to literally be 85 and not 101 or 103. 🙂 So if you read anywhere online that’s she 85, you know that’s incorrect and you know the actual facts. 😎 If you want to get really technical, The Secret of the Old Clock was written in 1929, so that would make her 102 or 104. 🙂
It’s not a mystery at all as to why Nancy (and the Hardy Boys) continue to be important, much-read characters. The answer is that readers who love action and mystery love reading about the adventures of people who have a strong sense of ethics and are willing to take on deadly foes murderously intent on getting away with a number of crimes. Bad individuals and groups get stopped and it’s good to see that. Plus Nancy and the Hardys keep their sense of humor, which also helps them. Smart, brave, loyal, compassionate, resourceful, quick-witted and wise are all words that describe Nancy Drew (and The Hardy Boys 😀 ). And I’m extremely thankful to know that there are people like them for real. 🙂
Nancy not only has a lot of books, but other items as well. My mom and dad got me a book about Madame Alexander dolls and it has in there about the doll made in Nancy’s honor. Plus, there are numerous movies, games, several alternate universe book series, and graphic novels from Papercutz. The games includes PC/Mac/tablet/phone games from HeR Interactive, including one of my favorite ones, The Secret of the Old Clock – which I like more than the book. 😎
So those of us who love an adventure want to read the exciting mysteries Nancy’s solved. You can find them on sale online or in bookstores, or check them out of public libraries in paperback, hardcover, and ebook. Puzzling clues and fascinating mysteries at a variety of locations await you! 🙂
Let me know what you like most about Nancy and if you have a favorite book or game! 🙂
In Papercutz’s second volume of Hardy Boys graphic novels, Identity Theft, you’re going to find action, humor, the strength of family love and the importance of a person’s character. 😎
The book starts off in a fun way with these words by Joe “WOOOOOO HOOOOOO!” There’s some cool skydiving as Frank and Joe try to find out who’s smuggling diamonds in each town where the Trans-Continental Sky-Jumping Team performs at local high schools. Through a secret arrangement by ATAC, the brothers get to jump with the team at Bayport High School. It’s mentioned that their dad taught them how to jump out of an airplane years before – pretty cool. 😎
Once they discover who the guilty one or ones are, that case is wrapped up and it’s back to the usual daily activities, like going to high school. Great seeing Chet there at Bayport High. 😎
After catching the smugglers, the Hardy’s receive the info on their next case via a game cartridge. As you can tell by the title, it’s about identity theft – very literally. With all of the activity and connectivity with the internet in most people’s lives, there’s the danger and possibility of identity theft for anyone whose personal info is anywhere online. This mystery gives a unique and frightening spin on the ever-present threat while pointing out some important things about a person’s true identity. The love of family and importance of a person’s character are shown in the story. It also shows the fact that “cosmetic” changes/plastic surgery aren’t necessary because it’s who you are on the inside that counts – so true. As the cast of Nickelodeon’s “How to Rock” (currently seen on TeenNick) sings ~ “Only You Can Be You.” 😎
The brothers help a girl who claims to be Joy Gallagher, but there’s already someone else making that same claim. Frank and Joe also help Joy’s family because, regardless of who’s telling the truth, something’s going on. Something very dangerous. Helping people is a constant and vitally important aspect of a Hardy Boys book. So the Hardys have to sort out who’s who – and survive. 😎
Intense scenes! I don’t want to give anything away, but I will say that parts of the mystery definitely had me on the edge of my seat! If you haven’t read it yet, you’ll see what I mean when you do. Those of you who have read it know exactly what I’m talking about!
Fenton, Laura, and Gertrude/Trudy are in this one and are very cool. The love of family is very clear and Frank and Joe say about the great role models of their mom and dad in their upbringing. In this graphic novel you read about the switch from “Gertrude” to “Trudy” and how that came about. I thought that was pretty interesting and nicely done. The joking around with Aunt Trudy is fun and the serious moments are well-placed throughout the book.
This Hardy Boys Papercutz graphic novel has mysterious happenings, humor – which is alway necessary in books and real-life – and plenty of action! 😀
You can get Hardy Boys #2 Identity Theft in paperback or hardcover and @Amazon Kindle, B&N Nook, and many other places that sells ebooks. 🙂 Your local library might even have the cool Hardy Boys graphic novels from Papercutz! 😀
Hardy Boys Graphic Novel #2 Identity Theft @ Papercutz
Hardy Boys Graphic Novel #2 Identity Theft @ Amazon
Ok, here’s what I thought of Secret of the Red Arrow. 🙂 I liked reading the first book of a new series right when it came out! 🙂 I read the book with a sib of mine and we grabbed some time whenever we could to check out Hardy Boys Adventures #1. 😀
So what did we find out about the Secret of the Red Arrow? The Hardy brothers continue to have their strong sense of justice and stopping evil. 😎 Along with their awesome teamwork and looking out for each other. In the first eight chapters of the book, there are some really good, particularly intense scenes. Plus, good wit and humor during the often very serious mystery taking place. 😎 That’s important. 😎
Love this sentence of Joe’s: “Not that they would stop us.” It shows the Hardys’ determination and dedication and bravery so essential to doing the right thing at the risk of being murdered and the risk of being falsely and unjustly locked up for doing the right thing….it has happened before to innocent people in real life. That kind of thing goes on even today. 😦 So this element is actually very VERY scary (the awful place should be shut down!). The Hardys have to keep it a secret that they are sleuthing, fighting crime, detecting, which they excel at. They want to help people, willing to take these risks, and this is the thanks they get? Real life and scary. Clearly those in the story who are helping out the criminals the Hardys have stopped are haters of justice and are on the side of evil. The agreement to avoid the threat of being sent away is called “the Deal”.
Cyberbullying is also stood up to in the book – love Frank and Joe taking a stand. The Diller character is a dangerous dork who, for the sake of his “art” will do stupid things and put others in very real and serious dilemmas. Diller trying to call something a prank or a joke doesn’t change the fact that crimes were committed, that could have had deadly consequences. I’m glad that the Hardys were there to stop the crimes. 😎 Preventing crimes, including murder, is always preferable to solving the crime afterwards and prevention should always be the main focus.
I was pleased to see that, like in the Hardy Boys Mystery books, they live in New York. 🙂
New interesting Hardy character award goes to: Ben Hardy – Fenton’s brother who is a tax lawyer out of Hartford, Connecticut, where he is working on taking care of the legalities concerning the unfair, unjust, and stupid lawsuits against the brave Hardys who are willing to do what is right, no matter the odds or risks. 😎 Uncle Ben Hardy has only been mentioned so far. 🙂 Should be interesting. 🙂
The first eight chapters have a very good writing style to them so that you can easily picture what is happening, with a good flow to the story. And I’m really impressed with the early twist! 😉 Did NOT see that coming! Nicely done! 😀 So there are really good parts in the book that I will want to read again. 🙂
After reading the whole thing, it really seems that there was one author writing the first part and yet a different author at least by the 9th chapter.
There’s a typo in the book by not having Marine capitalized, yet “Earth” and “Sun” were capitalized in a sentence.
Partway into the fourth chapter, one of Joe’s chapters in first person, Joe is speaking but then there was an accidental switch to Frank and then back to Joe and then to Frank again and then it was finally back to Joe by the end of the fourth chapter.
In the first eight chapters of the book, which was good, it was noted that Frank and Joe had worked with their dad on cases. You’ve been introduced to “the Deal” in this book, but there is something I call “the Mistake” that I hope doesn’t continue. Suddenly in chapter nine it became not-Hardy-like – saying they hadn’t worked with their dad on their cases, never asked for advice or help. Well-established Hardy facts refute this. One of the things I really love about the Hardy Boys books, is that father and sons work together. That is cool. They are a close family. 😎 Laura and Gertrude get involved with the mysteries, too, in the Hardy Boys Mystery books (1927-2005). 😎 Plus, as great detectives, Frank and Joe wouldn’t fail to recognize such an excellent resource for help as their Dad! 😎
There was some lying that could have easily been avoided – unnecessary and not cool.
The brothers’ girlfriends, Callie and Iola, along with friends Chet, Phil, Biff, and Tony weren’t in the book. 😦 Chet is in Mystery of the Phantom Heist and I’m hoping to see all of them in the series and written right. 🙂 Have only read the first chapter of the second book so far….
Another error – Principal Gorse’s first name is Hank early on in the book but then it’s Simon in the second half of the book. Plus, at the storage container where he said he made his phone calls at, just a short time later there was no reception there. Unless he has a cell phone jammer. Not sure about the deal with that (not referring to the “Deal”, just saying).
Chief Collig isn’t in the book, instead there’s Chief Gomez. While Chief Gomez is nice and likable, I just don’t understand replacing an established character. And Con Riley hasn’t shown up yet but he might. I would have liked to have seen him, but I wouldn’t have wanted them to write him like Officer Olaf.
One good thing at the end of the book was Frank crumbling up the note from the Red Arrow and sending a message that the Hardys wouldn’t be intimidated. 😎
The Hardys need to pull a Green Arrow and tell the Red Arrow: “You have failed Bayport City.” 😀 😎 Thwiiiip!!! Send an arrow flying real close and scare the Red Arrow! 😀
Bottom line – I’m glad there are characters like Frank and Joe Hardy who fight for justice no matter the odds stacked against them. That’s awesome and I’m glad there are those in real life who also make a difference and do everything they can to right the wrongs in the world, despite the odds. Interesting question to ask yourself – when you see something wrong do you respond like many of the residents in the book, with cowering fear and letting the bad people continue by doing nothing or caving in and actually doing their bidding? Or do you stand up for the right things even at personal cost? People have been pushed into ignoring wrong in the past as history clearly shows. Even people who aren’t normally evil. Some even become part of the evil they fear, justifying their actions in the name of self-preservation. And some brave souls are willing, like Frank and Joe in Secret of the Red Arrow, to take an underappreciated stand against evil while they and their family are being threatened. Each person who takes a stand is doing something.
As Frank said at the beginning of the book – “It’s funny to think about having enemies. Not funny ha-ha. Funny strange.”
I agree, Mr. Hardy. 🙂 😎 Thank you for not letting enemies scare you and your brother away. 😎
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