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The Happy Hollisters
#32 The Monster Mystery. Rare second to last book in the series.
Written by Jerry West
This book was published by Doubleday in 1969. This is the Book Club Edition.
The Happy Hollisters Series was started in 1953 by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and author/partner Andrew E. Svenson who used the pseudonym Jerry West. The Hollister family were modeled on Svenson’s own children and their family life in Bloomfield, NJ. Many of the events in the books were derived from things that happened at his children's Girl Scout and Boy Scout Camps and on family vacations.
Mr. Hollister owns The Trading Post, a hardware store and toy shop in the fictional town of Shoreham, and is often assisted at the store by his tight-knit family. The family has fun and adventures together, but when the mysteries arise, the independent Hollister children become amateur sleuths and are allowed to investigate and solve the mysteries on their own.
Did you ever dream of solving a mystery with the Hollisters?? The Hollister family includes five children, their parents, a family of cats, and a dog. Pete is the oldest of the Hollister children and is 12 years old. Pam, or Pamela, is ten years old and has a love for sports and is very adventurous. Ricky is a red-headed, rambunctious 7 year old, Holly a 6 year old tomboy and the youngest is Sue, age 4.
Mrs. Hollister tries to help her children solve mysteries and is always ready with handy tips for solving clues. Joey Brill appears as a rival of the Hollister family in most books. Although he is not actually a villain, he appears as an obstacle in most plots.
Readers love The Happy Hollisters for the excitement and intrigue, but parents and teachers also love them for their carefully detailed educational themes. Andrew Svenson’s goal in writing the series was to encourage a love of reading in children; each book was planned so that the first page would draw the reader in with a dangerous or mysterious situation, and each chapter would end with a cliffhanger or exciting twist that encouraged the child to turn the page and keep reading.
Doubleday & Co. published the first four titles in the series in 1953, and four titles were usually added to the series each year. When the series was completed in 1969, there were 33 volumes, published in the U.S. and seven additional countries.
Outside red cloth cover is CLEAN, BRIGHT and CRISP. Inside all pages are clean and supple. There are no marks. This is NOT a former library book. It comes from a smoke-free, pet-free environment. Hinges are firm -good tight copy!!! The dust jacket has two tears on the front cover. One is hard to see but did want to mention. Edge wear also but tight spine and book and inside of book is lightly read.
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