Hardy And Sons

The boys focus on the wrong thing.

The author misses several opportunities for authentic tension and instead becomes obsessed with a compass.

At the very end of the chapter, the boys hike Ambush Trail. They are not ambushed.

The boys make bad decisions underground. They are not stealthy. 

The boys learn about guns while the narrator teaches the children readers about guns as well!

The boys struggle on a roof and trust strangers.

The boys don't really understand what "music" is.

The boys call BS on a ghost story and then rent horses.

The boys continue to downplay threats and suspicion. Then their dad tells them to hunt an attempted murderer.

While this chapter title could describe any Hardy Boys book or chapter, this one is actually more of a boomerang to peril. 

The boys get a call from a stranger. Anytime someone new mentions that strangers, the boys trust them, too. Then they get kidnapped. Obviously.

The boys almost die, people are shot, cars are wrecked, mysteries abound across the country, and the boys trust several strangers.

This is a bad normal. 

We explore what characteristics make the hottest teeth. Also, relationships.

We begin to dissect the differences between the 1920's original and the 1960's rewrite of book 4: The Missing Chums. Turns out, they added a LOT, removed a lot, and kept some really weird things.

I did it. We did it. You did it. 

No read-alongs. Just a celebration of another book finished. 

The boys ambush the enemy. There are no negative consequences for any of their actions.

In this penultimate chapter of book 4, Frank seizes control of the Police and the Coast Guard while Joe listens to criminals explaining the details of all of their crimes.

The boys-- especially Joe-- demonstrate their disastrous instincts multiple times and get captured. Again.