The Firebird Rocket is Volume 57 in the Hardy Boys series of mystery books for children and teens published by Grosset & Dunlap.[1] The book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Vincent Buranelli in 1978.[2]

The Firebird Rocket
AuthorFranklin W. Dixon
LanguageEnglish
SeriesThe Hardy Boys
GenreDetective, mystery
PublisherGrosset & Dunlap
Publication date
1978
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages180 pp
ISBN0-448-08957-2
OCLC3850638
LC ClassPZ7.D644 Fh
Preceded byThe Jungle Pyramid 
Followed byThe Sting of the Scorpion 

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The Hardy Boys help their detective father, Fenton Hardy, search for a famous rocket scientist whose disappearance endangers the launching of the Firebird rocket from the Woomera Test Range. They are threatened multiple times, but still do not give up with their lives at risk. Frank and Joe Hardy aid their father and others. However, they soon learn that they are working for a criminal. While they are captured, the police arrive and rescue them, arresting the criminals except for the true mastermind who tries to flee. However, Frank and Joe stop the truck he uses and he is captured.

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