The Tower Treasure

This is an excellent beginning for the series. It introduces Frank and Joe, all their friends, and their parents, all of who will be continually seen in the books to follow. It also shows how the brothers get started on crime-fighting and how they know so much about solving cases. Not a lot of danger, but still a good read. There's a lot more about them in school in this book than later ones.

My 10 year old son was completely crushed when he finished the Percy Jackson series. On my dad's suggestion, I checked this out. Wow--first chapter--the motorcycle driving boys (who's father is a detective/lawyer) get run off the road. After that--there was no turning back. My son loves the old-fashioned language--(i.e. jalopy) he thinks it's hilarious.

Great books to read to my growing young kids. The chapters are very manageable and the action moves along nicely so there is always something to look forward to. The kids are really enjoying the stories.

The HardybBoys have grown up and have retained their ability to hold boys' attention with their awesome adventures. My son won't read any other series, but devours these like candy. He highly recommends them to all boys of middle school age!

I love The Hardy Boys Mysterys. I initially got them for my grandson, but am reading them first. Once I start, I can't seem to put them down. Great books. Can't wait to hear what my grandson thinks of them.

I ordered these for my oldest son for Christmas and expecting paperbacks as the title describes them. They are nice, come in a box and are hardcover! yeayy . . . So nice, and unchanged from their original printings. *For those unfamiliar: they are great good moral/problem solving reading for youngsters (my son is 8 but I think they are aimed at more like 12-15).

Bought this for my 2nd and 3rd grade Grandsons to read. This series and Nancy Drew were the first two series I read as a child. The Tower Treasure is an excellent book for these age groups and holds the boys interest and is still relevant today. Besides it pretty special that the book holds my interest after having each grandson read it to me 68 years after I read it!

I first encountered the Hardy Boys books in the fourth grade. For my 10th birthday my mother bought me 2 Hardy Boys books. I collected them for several year thereafter. If it wasn't for the Hardy Boys novels I would probably still be reading comic books.

Bought this for my 2nd and 3rd grade Grandsons to read. This series and Nancy Drew were the first two series I read as a child. The Tower Treasure is an excellent book for these age groups and holds the boys interest and is still relevant today. Besides it pretty special that the book holds my interest after having each grandson read it to me 68 years after I read it!

I first encountered the Hardy Boys books in the fourth grade. For my 10th birthday my mother bought me 2 Hardy Boys books. I collected them for several year thereafter. If it wasn't for the Hardy Boys novels I would probably still be reading comic books.

Hopefully, the reader will not mind if I wax nostalgic for a paragraph, but The Hardy Boys were an important part of my childhood. I got one book on the holidays and one for my birthday for some 5 years straight, and these were my entire personal library for some time. I owe all the thousands of books I have come to enjoy to a royal elephant, a detective pig, and Frank and Joe, the two inquisitive sons of Fenton Hardy. Now it is forty-some years later, and the temptation to see if I could go back again is simply too strong.
'The Tower Treasure' is the very first, in which Frank and Joe start out trying to track down a stolen car for a friend, and suddenly find themselves embroiled in a jewel theft at the Tower Mansion. The father of another of their friends is a suspect, and the boys join with their father in the effort to bring the right man to justice.
What makes these books work is that, while the plots are not particularly convolute, the books are peopled with many delightful characters and narrative. Adventures are had, wonderful secrets are divulged, the bad are punished and the good rewarded. In this day and age of equivocal messages, the clean, straightforward approach to life of Frank and Joe Hardy is like a breath of fresh air.
I found the book quite engaging, even after all these years. I was quite envious of the Hardys, who even had their own motorcycles, and I find flickers of the same feelings even today. After all, I still don't have a motorcycle. I wish I could have grown up solving mysteries and adventuring with my sibling and father, but books like 'The Tower Treasure' turned out to be the next think. I learned a lot from Frank and Joe, and I think those values are still worth promoting.

I have fond memories of Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books from my childhood, but these really didn't age well. My son told me reading them felt like watching old black and white tv shoes on Nickelodeon.