Undercover Brothers facts for kids

The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers is a cool series of detective books for young readers. It's published by Aladdin Paperbacks, which is part of Simon & Schuster. This series took the place of the older Hardy Boys books in 2005. All the books are written by an author using the pen name of Franklin W. Dixon.

Meet the Undercover Brothers

The Undercover Brothers series is all about two teenage detective brothers, Frank and List of The Hardy Boys characters#Joe Hardy. Their dad, Fenton Hardy, is a super famous private investigator. While this series has many things in common with the older Hardy Boys books, it also has some exciting new changes:

• The Hardy boys work as undercover agents for a top-secret government group called American Teens Against Crime (ATAC). Their dad helped start ATAC. They solve more realistic and sometimes dangerous crimes. Since ATAC is secret, Frank and Joe often have to make up reasons to tell their mom and aunt why they need to go places.
• The books are written in a first-person narrative style. This means Frank and Joe take turns telling the story in different chapters. They even sometimes interrupt each other!
• The Hardy boys' aunt, Gertrude, is now called Trudy. She is also much younger in this series than in previous ones.
• Frank and Joe's long-time girlfriends, Callie Shaw and Iola Morton, appear in the books. However, Frank and Joe are no longer dating them. Other friends from the original series are sometimes mentioned but don't play big roles.
• The Hardys have a pet parrot named Playback.

Regular Book Series

Here are the titles and release dates for the main Undercover Brothers series:

Trilogy Book Series

Some of the Undercover Brothers stories were released in groups of three, called trilogies. Here are those titles:

Undercover Brothers Super Mysteries

These are longer, special mystery books in the Undercover Brothers series:

The Hardy Boys Secret Files

The Hardy Boys Secret Files is another series that started in 2010. In these books, Frank and Joe are younger, like grade-school detectives! Simon & Schuster published these books under their Aladdin brand. Three new books were released each year as paperbacks and eBooks. This series ended in 2015 and was followed by the Hardy Boys Clue Book series.

Here's a list of the titles in this series:

• Trouble at the Arcade
• The Missing Mitt
• Mystery Map
• Hopping Mad
• A Monster of a Mystery
• The Bicycle Thief
• The Disappearing Dog
• Sports Sabotage
• The Great Coaster Caper
• A Rockin' Mystery (October 2012)
• Robot Rumble (April 2013)
• Lights, Camera...Zombies! (August 2013)
• Balloon Blow-Up (December 2013)
• Fossil Frenzy (April 2014)
• Ship of Secrets (August 2014)
• Camping Chaos (December 2014)
• The Great Escape (April 2015)
• Medieval Upheaval (August 2015)
• The Race Is On (December 2015)

Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys Super Mystery

This is a special spin-off series where the Hardy Boys team up with Nancy Drew: Girl Detective! The stories are told from different points of view, with Frank or Joe telling one chapter and Nancy telling the next. The first book in the series introduces the characters to each other. One new book was published each year until both the Girl Detective and Undercover Brothers series ended in 2012.

Hardy Boys Graphic Novels

In 2005, a company called NBM started a new part of their company called Papercutz. They began publishing comic book series, including The Hardy Boys: The Ocean of Osyria. After these series were finished, they were put together into longer books called graphic novels. These became the first books in the Hardy Boys Graphic Novel series.

All the other books in this series were made only as graphic novels and came out every three months.

List of Graphic Novel Titles

2005

• 1. The Ocean of Osyria

When Chet Morton’s internet account is hacked and used to bid on a stolen item called the Ocean of Osyria, Frank and Joe Hardy, along with their friends Callie Shaw and Iola Morton, travel to Osyria to clear Chet's name.

• 2. Identity Theft

The brothers look into a very strange mystery about a popular, rich teenage girl whose identity has been stolen.

• 3. Mad House
• 4. Malled

The brothers and some foreign shoppers get trapped inside Bayport's new shopping mall. A mysterious person has set up many traps! The trapped people must work together to survive, find a way to escape quickly, and stop the person using some ATAC gadgets the brothers have.

2006

• 4. Malled
• 5. Sea You, Sea Me
• 6. Hyde and Shriek
• 7. The Opposite Numbers

2007

• 8. Board to Death

The brothers need to figure out who is trying to hurt the competitors at a skateboard tournament.

• 9. To Die or Not to Die

The boys go to a drama competition for high school students to find out who is trying to ruin the show and win unfairly.

• 10. A Hardy Day's Night

The Hardy Boys have to rescue an agent's son, or they will be in big trouble!

• 11. Abracadeath

2008

• 12. Dude Ranch O' Death!
• 13. The Deadliest Stunt

The brothers go to a stunt competition to work with Lindsay Rider as backup.

• 14. Haley Danelle's Top Eight!

When Haley's online friends start disappearing in real life, the boys decide to help her.

• 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