The Famous Five and the Hardy Boys

[ER]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "linlou43" <linlou43 at y...> 
wrote:

> ER asked?
>  
> > Now, who the heck are the Hardy Boys? Cousins of the Five? :)
> 
> The Hardy boys are mystery books starring the teenage brother 
> detectives Frank and Joe Hardy 

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> Anyway, the books you descibe sound more like the Bobsey Twins 
> series.

>    hope that helps-linlou

Yes, the Hardy Boys sound a little more, well, hardy, than the Five. 
A slightly harsher edge to them probably. The Bobsey Twins _sound_ a 
little younger. Anybody called "the Bobsey Twins" would have suffered 
badly at my junior school ;)

ER