Laura Lee Hope was a pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate. The Stratemeyer Syndicate was the producer of a number of series for children and adults at the beginning of the twentieth-century, including the Nancy Drew mysteries, The Hardy Boys, the various Tom Swift series, The Bobbsey Twins and others. It pioneered the technique of producing long-running, consistent series of books using a team of freelance authors to write standardized novels, which were published under a pen name owned by his company. Actual writers taking up the pen of Laura Lee Hope include Howard and Lilian Garis, Elizabeth Ward, Edward Stratemeyer, Harriet (Stratemeyer) Adams, and Nancy Axelrad. Series written under this pseudonym include: The Bobbsey Twins, The Outdoor Girls, The Moving Picture Girls, Bunny Brown, Six Little Bunkers, Make Believe Stories and Blythe Girls.

These books are about a family with 6 little kids. They have an adventure in each chapter. Publilshers, New YorkThese adventures seem like things that people in that time frame would relate to. I’m sure they were written to be kids’ books. 100 years later, I don’t really relate to them, but I enjoyed reading about the way things used to be. This one is set leading up to Christmas. The overall plot is about the house Grandpa Ford just bought that has a strange noise in it. The adults in the book and the 2 older kids are trying to figure out what’s making this noise. Could it be a ghost?