Rick Brant Electronic Adventures
Also known as the Rick Brant Science Adventure series, this set of books is a wonderful adventure/mystery series that is not nearly as well known as the Hardy Boys or Tom Swift, but should be. Take a fascinating adventure and mix in a little bit of mystery and an extra helping of science and you will get the Rick Brant series. The series is something like the Hardy Boys with realistic science thrown in.
Rick Brant and his friend, Scotty, live with Rick's family on Spindrift Island, where Rick's father is the head of a internationally known group of scientists. Rick takes after his father with his interest in science and electronics and this knowledge is often used to save the day in the books. Rick and Scotty get into all sorts of scrapes and adventures all over the world and have to find or fight their way out. The Rick Brant series was written in the 1940s and 1950s and can be hard to find locally, but they are readily available online on Amazon, Ebay, and similar places.
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