Un gran concurso de pescado en The Trading Post, la tienda de artículos deportivos de Hollisters, tiene emocionados a todos en Shoreham. Después de que Pete atrape un gran pez con una etiqueta en la cola, comienza otra aventura para los ansiosos jóvenes detectives. Cuando el amigo de los niños, Bobby Reed, desaparece en un viejo bote agujereado, toda la familia ayuda en la búsqueda. El tío Russ les presta su bote y emprenden un viaje por el río Muskong. Después de ayudar a alguno excursionistas en la orilla, Pete, Pam y el Sr. Hollister se pierden en la niebla en su camino de regreso al bote.
Una serie de descubrimientos sorpresa llevan a los Hollister a buscar a Bobby en la costa, y otras aventuras brindan buenos momentos en el camino. Pero hay pistas falsas y decepciones antes de que los Hollister encuentren a Bobby, resuelvan el misterio del pez marcado y hagan felices a un anciano, Bobby y su madre.

The Happy Hollisters on a River Trip by Jerry West
Another episode of the family as the hardware store their dad runs has a contest. the biggest fish caught will win $25 to spend at the store.
The kids also run into Bobby, a local boy but he's staying with a farmer who puts him to work while his mother is out west. She is searching for her grandfather.
The children also catch some fish with a tag on the tail that says ole moe with a number. They ask many around town for a clue as to who ole moe is and they get a lot of clues.
Love the printing procedures at the newspaper, so precise as I was in the publishing business at one time.
The kids are alarmed when they learn Bobby has left the area and they start searching and ask their Uncle Russ for help.
He is able to help them as they all search for the missing boy and also try to find out about ole moe.
What a great story, it even has the bully of the town Joey Brille at his tricks again. Wouldn't be a story without him.
Love all the kids and all they put into finding out all the answers.
Can't wait to read another book. ( )

I'm afraid that my KU readathon may turn into a Happy Hollisters Readathon for about thirty more books. ( )

Los Hollister es la serie de libros que me inició definitivamente en la lectura. Recuerdo haber leído el primero y, con todo el dinero que había ahorrado por mi primera comunión y en todos los años anteriores, ir a por los 32 restantes, que costaban 600 pelas cada uno. Los compré todos en la feria del libro de Ceuta, lo recuerdo perfectamente, y volví a mi casa con dos bolsas y una mochila llenas de libros, que me duraron tres meses exactamente, para sorpresa/preocupación de mi madre.
Cada libro es el mismo, con aventuras algo diferentes, y con los mismo personajes, que no evolucionan nada en toda la serie. Pete, Pam, Holly, Ricky, Sue, puedo recitar sus nombres treinta años después sin consultarlo. Yo siempre fui de los Hollister, despreciando a quieres eran de los siete secretos, los Cinco o (puaj) Puck.
Junto a Mortadelo, los tres investigadores de Alfred Hitchcock y (a petición de mi padre) las aventuras de Guillermo, comenzaron a formar mi universo lector. Y por ello, aunque sean libros de lo más intrascendente, los considero fundamentales. ( )

The Happy Hollister books are a series of children's books featuring a large "happy" middle-class US family that has adventures and solves mysteries. The "River Trip" is #2 in the series, and was published in 1953. On reading it recently, I found it familiar and suspect it was among the HH books my siblings and I read as children.

In this story, the family set off on a trip down the Muskong River in search of Bobby, a playmate of the kids. During a series of adventures, they solve a mystery of why tagged clownfish turn up from time to time while finding a happy ending for Bobby and his mother. Joey Brill, the perpetual bad boy of the series tries to do harm, but to no avail. Each chapter of this book ends with a cliff -hanger and exclamation mark, keeping the story moving along to its happy climax.

Reviewers at Amazon variously label the Hollister books as "insipid", "banal", and "heartwarming," and arguments can be made for each of these assessments. More to the point is whether kids today would find this book more interesting than video games. While I have my doubts, I leave it to others to make that judgement. ( )