Nancy and Frank

[Bigfootman]

Also, the Nancy Drew Girl Detective books when they were first released managed to make it into the 120's on the Top 200 New York Times Children's books list.

The Hardy Boys Undercover Brothers have never been able to do that.  So most English teachers and Professors would call the Nancy Drew Girl Detective series a recent children's Classic.   The Undercover Brothers series is not able to get that classification.

I can explain that, Nancy Drew focused more on Nancy's socal life then the UBs focus and Frank and Joe's socal life, making Nancy Drew Girl Detective more intresting, also would you rather read a book where the characters had no almost socal life at all (UB), or one where they did (ND)?

[Bigfootman]

Look at this list of classics notace how the bluespines are listed but not the UBs:
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_7399792_7?ie=UTF8&docId=1000270251&pf_rd_m=A3DWYIK6Y9EEQB&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=0K5A2YJ0ZW6APH4XT3SF&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=434598201&pf_rd_i=402115011

[Bigfootman]

Now look at the list of best selling HB books. of the UBs only the GNs appear on the first few pages, in fact I have no idea where the UBs are on the the list, I went until page 8 and altough I did see a ton of casefiles, no UBs beside GNs:
http://www.amazon.ca/hardy-boys-Books/s/qid=1221436769/ref=sr_pg_1?ie=UTF8&rs=927726&keywords=Hardy%20Boys&rh=n%3A927726%2Ck%3AHardy%20Boys&page=1

[JoeHardyRocks]

Maybe the UB fans don't order their UB books on Amazon.

[tomswift2002]

http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/search?keywords=The%20Hardy%20Boys&pageSize=10&sort=Sales&sortDirection=true&page=0

Here's a sight that's more fair since Chapters-Indigo has Kiosk's in their Chapters, Indigo, Coles, Smithbooks and Book Company stores that allow people to order off their website while in the store and pay at the cash register.

And its nearly the same as Amazon, although Haunted is at #7, but that is probably because it was just released.  Although, I must say that Feeding Frenzy is still doing well, since it is at #11, followed by Blown Away at #23, Extreme Danger at #25 followed by Danger Overseas at #26, Martial Law at #29.

#31 Top Ten Ways To Die
#39 Trouble In Paradise
#49 Terror On Tour
#81 Murder House #3 Murder House
#96 Double Danger #1 Double Trouble
#179 Haley Danelle's Top Eight (newest Graphic Novel-paperback edition)
#189 Murder House #2 House Arrest
#251 Murder At The Mall
#260 Hazed
#261 Comic Con Artist
#272 Foul Play (UB not Casefile)
#278 Death and Diamonds

[tomswift2002]

Same list
#302 Bayport Buccaneers
#306 Pushed


I also did a search for the Bestseller between the Casefiles Foul Play and the Undercover Brothers Foul Play (I just used advanced search, typed in Title: Foul Play, Author: Franklin W. Dixon, and then chose Besteller in the scroll down list).

The results were:

1. Foul Play (Casefiles)
2. Foul Play (Undercover Brothers)

[Bigfootman]

Oh yeah, I've seen a ton of people reading Casefiles at my school, but no UBs.

[Bigfootman]

http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/search?keywords=The%20Hardy%20Boys&pageSize=10&sort=Sales&sortDirection=true&page=0

Here's a sight that's more fair since Chapters-Indigo has Kiosk's in their Chapters, Indigo, Coles, Smithbooks and Book Company stores that allow people to order off their website while in the store and pay at the cash register.

And its nearly the same as Amazon, although Haunted is at #7, but that is probably because it was just released.  Although, I must say that Feeding Frenzy is still doing well, since it is at #11, followed by Blown Away at #23, Extreme Danger at #25 followed by Danger Overseas at #26, Martial Law at #29.

#81 Murder House #3 Murder House
#96 Double Danger #1 Double Trouble
#189 Murder House #2 House Arrest

Second books in "Trilogies" don't sell well for some reason.

[003Robin457]

Also note that on that site GNs are doing way better than regular UB's