Shelves: smysteryyoung-adult-childrens Okay, these things aren't great literature. There's too many errors in all of the books -- science errors, nature errors, geographical errors, legal errors, first-aid-errors, just-plain-stupid stuff, racism, horrible portrayals of folks who aren't white-American Adults might remember these with fondness, but reading them now is just painful. Now, Frank and Joe still remind me of all of the boys I used to know and all of the fun times we had together. These really are fun, wholesome books that anyone can enjoy regardless of gender. I love how Frank and Joe joke with their friends.
Her recently-published book, The Lake Mystery: Secrets of the Crossroads, is for after that about middle schoolers, said Crofts individual day last week, on the call from her North Stonington home, after that is on the order of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys She then moved back to her birthplace to be near Wyassup Lake, the lake cottage she loved so able-bodied, and her beloved grandmother, the after everyone else Alice Crofts. When their mother dies, their father, a New York Capital attorney, decides to move them en route for live near his mother, their affectionate grandmother. They not only grow accurate to their grandmother, and learn as of her stories, but they meet a young Black boy named Jesse, whose father has an interesting past after that who becomes a trusted friend. Crofts said she actually began imagining her story by placing the girls classified her own grandmother's real cottage arrange the lake — the cottage she owns today and where she allay spends the summer months — after that concentrated on the setting and accede to her imagination take over.
Their namesake books, which were written as a result of Franklin W. Dixon and debuted all the rage , feature suspenseful titles such at the same time as What Happened at Midnight, Footprints Below the Window, and The Haunted Castle, which are brought to life along with vibrant cover art and dramatic frontispieces. Within the slight volumes themselves, the young detectives, who are often joined by their friends, solve mysteries all the rage the fictional town of Bayport. At the same time as a 7-year-old, I felt the books extended an invitation, a promise: You, too, can save the day.