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  Audrika smiled. “I never realized how much gardening and detecting are alike. Sometimes it’s a real puzzle figuring out what a plant needs for it to grow strong. Just like solving a case!”

  “And all of us know how to dig around to unearth the answers.” Frank took a triumphant bite of his pickle.

  Joe grinned at their neighbors. “With your green thumbs and our mystery minds, we can solve any plant predicament!”

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  ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR

  Franklin W. Dixon is the author of the ever-popular Hardy Boys series of books.

  Santy Gutiérrez resides in the seaside city of La Coruña, Spain. He has won awards such as the Best Spanish Young Editorial Cartoonist and Best Galician Caricaturist, among others.

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  #3: Water-Ski Wipeout

  #4: Talent Show Tricks

  #5: Scavenger Hunt Heist

  #6: A Skateboard Cat-astrophe

  #7: The Pirate Ghost

  #8: The Time Warp Wonder

  #9: Who Let the Frogs Out?

  #10: The Great Pumpkin Smash

  #11: Bug-Napped

  #12: Sea Life Secrets

  #13: Robot Rescue!

  #14: The Bad Luck Skate

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  #16: Undercover Bookworms

  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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  First Aladdin hardcover edition April 2022

  Text copyright © 2022 by Simon & Schuster, Inc.

  Illustrations copyright © 2022 by Santy Gutiérrez

  Also available in an Aladdin paperback edition.

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  Series designed by Karina Granda

  Jacket designed by Tiara Iandiorio

  Jacket illustration copyright © 2022 by Santy Gutiérrez

  The illustrations for this book were rendered digitally.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Names: Dixon, Franklin W, author. | Gutiérrez, Santy, 1971- illustrator.

  Title: The garden plot / by Franklin W Dixon ; illustrated by Santy Gutiérrez.

  Description: New York : Aladdin, [2022] | Series: Hardy Boys clue book ; 15 | Audience: Ages 6 to 9 | Summary: Detective brothers Frank and Joe investigate garden sabotage.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2021021976 (print) | LCCN 2021021977 (ebook) | ISBN 9781534476844 (hc) | ISBN 9781534476837 (pbk) | ISBN 9781534476851 (ebook)

  Subjects: CYAC: Brothers—Fiction. | Mystery and detective stories. | LCGFT: Detective and mystery fiction. | Novels.

  Classification: LCC PZ7.D644 Gar 2022 (print) | LCC PZ7.D644 (ebook) | DDC [Fic]—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021021976

  LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021021977

 

 

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