''The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers'' is a detective fiction series of books published by

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), which replaced

The Hardy Boys The Hardy Boys, brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, are fictional characters who appear in several mystery series for children and teens. The series revolves around teenagers who are amateur sleuths, solving cases that stumped their adult counterp ...

Digest paperbacks in early 2005. All the books in the series have been written under the

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Series background

The ''Undercover Brothers'' is about two teenage brother detectives,

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and Joe Hardy, who are the sons of world-famous PI

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. Although there are many similarities in this series to the previous Hardy Boys series, there are also many changes, for example: * The Hardy boys are undercover agents for American Teens Against Crime (ATAC), a top-secret government organization, co-founded by their father, and are solving more realistic and violent crimes. Since it is a top-secret organization, Frank and Joe often need to make up excuses to convince their mother and aunt to let them go to places. * The books in this series are written in a

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style with Frank and Joe alternating chapters and often interrupting each other. * The Hardy boys' aunt's name is shortened from Gertrude to Trudy. It is revealed in ''Hurricane Joe'' why she shortened her name to Trudy. This version is much younger than the character in other Hardy Boys series. * The Hardy boys' long-time girlfriends,

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and

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, appear in the books, but only as platonic friends of the boys instead of love interests. Other friends from the original series are occasionally mentioned but never play important roles as they did in the past. * The Hardys have a pet parrot named Playback.

Regular series

Trilogy series

Undercover Brothers Super Mysteries

The Hardy Boys Secret Files

''The Hardy Boys Secret Files'' is a series begun in 2010 by the publisher

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Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys Super Mystery

A crossover spin-off series with the '' Nancy Drew: Girl Detective'' series. The stories are told in the first person, alternating chapters, between Frank's or Joe's, and Nancy's perspective. The first title in the series acts as an introduction between the characters. This series published one title per year until the end of the ''Girl Detective'' and ''Undercover Brothers'' series in 2012.

Graphic novels

In the spring of 2005, NBM launched its new

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, with the publication of two three-part

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series; Nancy Drew ''The Demon of River Heights'' and The Hardy Boys ''The Ocean of Osyria''. After the completion of both series, ''The Demon of River Heights'' series and ''The Ocean of Osyria'' series were both collected into 92 pages

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s, becoming the first titles in the Nancy Drew Graphic Novel series and the Hardy Boys Graphic Novel series respectively. All other titles in both series have been made in graphic novel format only and are published every three months.

List of graphic novels series titles

;2005 : 1. ''The Ocean of Osyria'' When

Chet Morton Many characters have appeared in the fictional series of books about The Hardy Boys. Character history Original series At the beginning of the original Hardy Boys series, Frank is only 16 years old (as opposed to 18 after the revisions betwee ...

’s Internet account is hacked into and used to bid on a stolen artifact, the Ocean of Osyria, best friends Frank and Joe Hardy, with girlfriends Callie Shaw and Iola Morton, head to Osyria, the location of the auction, to clear Chet's name. : 2. ''Identity Theft'' The brothers investigate a ''very'' strange mystery about a popular, wealthy teenage girl's stolen identity. : 3. ''Mad House'' : 4. ''Malled'' The brothers and a few foreign shoppers are locked up in Bayport's new shopping mall deliberately by a mysterious man who sabotaged the mall with many traps. The 'prisoners' must struggle to survive together, find a way to escape (fast!), and find and stop the man with a few ATAC gadgets the brothers have before it is too late. ;2006 : 4. ''Malled'' : 5. ''Sea You, Sea Me'' : 6. '' Hyde and Shriek'' : 7. ''The Opposite Numbers'' ;2007 : 8. ''Board to Death'' The brothers must figure out who is trying to kill the competition at a skateboard tournament. : 9. ''To Die or Not to Die'' The boys head to a drama competition for high school students to snoop out a sabotager wanting to win the tournament. : 10. ''A Hardy Day's Night'' The Hardy Boys have to rescue an agent's son or they will be dead! : 11. ''Abracadeath'' ;2008 : 12. ''Dude Ranch O' Death!'' : 13. ''The Deadliest Stunt'' The brothers head to a stunt competition to work with Lindsay Rider... as ''backup''! : 14. ''Haley Danelle's Top Eight!'' When Haley's Internet friends start disappearing in real life, the boys decide to help out. : 15. ''Live Free, Die Hardy!'' ;2009 : 16. ''Shhhhhh!'' : 17. ''Word Up!'' : 18. ''D.A.N.G.E.R. Spells the Hangman'' : 19. ''Chaos at 50,000 feet!'' ;2010 : 20. ''Deadly Strategy''

References

External links

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Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers at Simon and Schuster

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