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The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat

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First published: 1915
Pages: 171

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Good News
11:05
Snap Saves Freddie
14:13
Dinah's Upset
9:42
At the Houseboat
9:19
The Strange Boy
10:47
Freddie's Fire Engine
10:42
The Two Cousins
12:08
Off in the 'Bluebird'
10:28
Snoop and Snap
9:18
Down the Creek
14:28
The Mean Man
13:07
The Wire Fence
9:43
The Runaway Boy
6:58
Off Again
14:50
Overboard
8:26
The Missing Sandwiches
9:42
In the Storm
16:01
Strange Noises
6:29
Snap's Queer Actions
12:19
At the Waterfall
7:22
What Bert Saw
8:55
The Stowaway
10:45

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About this book

The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat was published in 1915 and represents one of the more genuinely fun premises in the series. Mr. Bobbsey rents a houseboat for the summer holidays, and the entire family, plus Dinah and Sam, travel down a river and across a connected lake system, living on board for weeks at a time. The houseboat itself, called The Bluebird, becomes effectively the setting for the whole novel.

The book is structured as a series of small adventures at the various stops along the route. A near-collision with a tugboat. A storm that almost beaches them on an unmarked sandbar. A wild man on the riverbank turns out to be a perfectly polite hermit. Flossie and Freddie wander away in nearly every chapter and are recovered in slightly different circumstances each time. There is a low-key mystery involving an item missing from the houseboat after a visitor's stay. Standard middle-period Bobbsey writing in a slightly above-average setting.

About the author

Laura Lee Hope

Laura Lee Hope was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, the New Jersey-based fiction factory that produced most of the major American children's series of the first three-quarters of the twentieth century.