
The boys have been featured in five television shows and several video games, and have helped promote merchandise such as lunchboxes and jeans. Through these changes the characters have remained popular the books sell more than a million copies annually, several new volumes are published each year, and the adventures have been translated into over 25 languages.


Undercover Brothers ended in 2012 and was replaced in 2013 by The Hardy Boys Adventures, also narrated in the first person.

A new series, Undercover Brothers, was launched the same year, featuring updated versions of the characters who narrate their adventures in the first person. The original "Hardy Boys Mystery Stories" series ended in 2005. From 1959 to 1973, the first 38 books were extensively revised, largely to remove depictions of racial stereotypes they were also targeted towards younger readers by being rewritten in a simpler, action-oriented style to compete with television.Ī new Hardy Boys series, the Hardy Boys Casefiles, was created in 1987, and featured murders, violence, and international espionage. The Hardy Boys have evolved since their debut in 1927. The books themselves were written by several ghostwriters, most notably Leslie McFarlane, under the collective pseudonym Franklin W. The characters were created by American writer Edward Stratemeyer, the founder of book-packaging firm Stratemeyer Syndicate. The series revolves around teenagers who are amateur sleuths, solving cases that stumped their adult counterparts. The Hardy Boys, brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, are fictional characters who appear in several mystery series for children and teens. The ending leaves the possibility of another hit trilogy in the works.Cover of The Tower Treasure, the first Hardy Boys mystery Her strength rivals Katniss's and Tris's, and the title has a similar dystopian backdrop. Natalia questions everyone, even some of her closest friends and family.

It doesn't help matters that this Outsider is handsome and arrogant and has answers to many of the questions she has about the outside. The Dome's motto, "Peace, Love, Order, Dome," doesn't sit well with Natalia after she witnesses the capture of an "Outsider" and swears the other man who got away was her Uncle Alec, a man who died with her mother and father nine years ago after an excursion to the outside went terribly wrong. Dome 1618 was created for the safety of the people after the "cleansing wars" made death by radiation a real threat. Gr 8 Up-"It doesn't matter how many birthday wishes are made I always wake up trapped inside the dome." Natalia Greyes has graduated, and according to dome law and her prickly grandmother, "Your time to contribute to the dome begins today," on her 18th birthday.
