Trouble at the Arcade
By Franklin W. Dixon and Scott Burroughs
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In Trouble at the Arcade, nine-year-old Frank and eight-year-old Joe Hardy discover trouble lurking at the local arcade and decide they make pretty good detectives—just like their dad!
Franklin W. Dixon
Franklin W. Dixon is the pen name used by a variety of different authors who wrote the Hardy Boys novels.
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Trouble at the Arcade - Franklin W. Dixon
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Alien Attack!
All humans will be destroyed!" a metallic voice rang out.
Nine-year-old Frank Hardy gasped as yet another row of hideous aliens appeared over the horizon. There was no question about it. Earth was being invaded!
Ha!
he shouted, and his dark hair fell in his eyes as he dodged a laser blast by doing a somersault through the air. Then he ducked around a huge pile of rocks.
Oh no! There were more aliens behind the rock pile. And these were even worse. They were spitting horrible blue goo!
BLURP! A wad of goo came flying at Frank.
He jumped up and did a flip in midair to avoid the goo. Then he karate-kicked a rock. It crashed down on one of the aliens.
SPLAT! Blue goo spurted everywhere.
Gotcha!
Frank cried.
Frank! Are you up there?
For a second Frank thought one of the aliens was calling him. Then he realized it wasn’t an alien. It was his mother. He blinked and looked up from the video game console.
BLURP! On the screen, the aliens were still coming. A few seconds later a big blob of goo took over the screen, and then two words appeared:
Rats,
Frank muttered. I’ll never be ready for the contest if I don’t do better than that.
His mother called his name again. He set down the controls and walked out to the top of the stairs to see what she wanted.
Oh, there you are.
Mrs. Hardy was holding a large spoon in one hand and a book in the other. She was a librarian, and she almost always had a book with her. It’s Joe’s turn to set the table for dinner,
she said. But I can’t find him anywhere. Have you seen him?
Nope.
Frank started down the stairs. But don’t worry. I’ll find him.
He went out the back door and crossed the lawn, heading toward the woods at the back of the yard. Before he got there, he looked around carefully.
There were hedges on both sides of the yard, so none of the neighbors could see him. The sound of hammering was coming from the spare room over the garage. Mr. Hardy had been working up there for weeks during his free time. But Frank couldn’t see his father through the window, so he guessed his father couldn’t see him, either.
Frank ducked into a narrow path between two bushes. It looked like a trail that nothing but a deer or a rabbit would use. But it actually led straight to the tree house Frank and his younger brother Joe had helped their parents build in the woods. No one except the two of them (and their parents) knew the tree house was there.
The tree house was halfway up a huge old maple tree. Frank and Joe had painted the bottom of the platform green and brown. That way, even if someone walked right past, they probably