The Rover Boys at School (Illustrated)

The Rover Boys at School introduces us to Tom, Sam, and Dick Rover. In this first book in the series, the boys begin their first year at Putnam Hall, a boarding school for boys only. Their time there is chock-full of adventures, enemies, fights, pranks, and not the least of all, sports. We discover that all three boys are superb athletes as Putnam Hall competes against their arch-enemy, Pornell Academy in classic, down-to-the-wire baseball and football games. Their were 30 books in first and second Rover Boys series, and an additional six in the Putnam Hall series, which features characters from the first series, but not the boys themselves.

Edward Stratemeyer wrote more than 1,300 books himself, selling over 500 million copies. In addition to 10 Dave Porter books, Stratemeyer wrote seven series with mostly a military nature. He also created Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, The Rover Boys, The Dana Boys, Bomba the Jungle Boy, and Tom Swift. He wrote under seven pen names and employed a number of ghost writers for whom he wrote plot outlines. The "Stratemeyer Syndicate" was a large organization and controlled a number of publishers.

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