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4.6/5 Barnes & Noble Country United States Series The Hardy Boys Pages 180 pp Followed by The Sting of the Scorpion | 3.8/5 Goodreads 3.8/5 AbeBooks Language English Publication date 1978 Originally published 1978 Preceded by The Jungle Pyramid Publisher Grosset & Dunlap | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Genres Detective fiction, Mystery Similar Franklin W Dixon books, The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories books, Mystery books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Firebird Rocket is Volume 57 in the original The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories published by Grosset & Dunlap.
The book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Vincent Buranelli in 1978.
Plot summary
The Hardy Boys help their detective father, Fenton Hardy, search for a famous rocket scientist whose disappearance endangers the launching of the Firebird Rocket. They are threatened multiple times, but still do not give up with their lives at risk. Frank and Joe Hardy aid their father and others. However, they soon learn that they are working for a criminal. While they are captured, the police arrive and rescue them, arresting the criminals except for the true mastermind who tries to flee. However, Frank and Joe stop the truck he uses and he is captured.