Robert Sidney Bowen

The international windsurfing competition for the coveted Almanarre Cup is coming up, and someone is trying to do in the top competitors. The Hardys travel to Villa Dombray in the South of France on this dangerous mission.

A bank robbery and a forest fire threatening their city play an important part in six hot rod enthusiasts' plan to develop a drag strip for their community.

276 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm930L Lexile

The story of the American volunteers who flew as fighter pilots for France in World War I prior to official U.S. entry into the conflict in late 1917. Marketed as somewhat of a book for youth, Is thoroughly researched and written in a captivating style. The author was himself a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps during the war. In it we find out such things as: Who was America's first flying ace? (it wasn't the well-deserving and well-known Eddie Rickenbacker!); What was the difference in the Lafayette Flying Corps and the Lafayette Escadrille, and how did they begin?; and, Which plane earned the nickname the "Flying Brick"? Fun reading about the exciting days of a by-gone era.

A surfer turns to hot rod racing to have the satisfaction of beating fairly a boy whose carelessness had endangered his life in the surf.

Eighteen-year-old Jimmy, star infield player, wanted to make his senior year the best one but it looked as though it would be his roughest.

The proud young owner of a carefully built hot rod cooperates with the police to uncover a car stealing and stripping racket in Honolulu.