Fun, I'm 64 and yeah those books about kids doing stuff, was what I did. It was all free range kids back then. Which was great. I don't think I know any of those books, except maybe the boxcar kids, and certainly Encyclopedia Brown. I read all of those in the local library and then went right to Sherlock Holmes. I soon found the YA sci-fi section and gobbled up all of that. Heinlein became my total fav.
Fun, I'm 64 and yeah those books about kids doing stuff, was what I did. It was all free range kids back then. Which was great. I don't think I know any of those books, except maybe the boxcar kids, and certainly Encyclopedia Brown. I read all of those in the local library and then went right to Sherlock Holmes. I soon found the YA sci-fi section and gobbled up all of that. Heinlein became my total fav.