Amazon.com description: Product Description: Tom Swift Series
Category: Young Readers , Adventure

Tom Swift is the young protagonist in several series of juvenile adventure novels which began in the early twentieth century and continues to the present. Each such series stars a hero named Tom Swift who is a genius inventor and whose breakthroughs in technology (especially transport technology) drive the plots of the novels, placing them in a genre sometimes called "invention fiction" or "Edisonade". Some of the later heroes might be considered the same character after a rebooted continuity, but in at least one series, Tom Swift was identified as a relative of the original Tom Swift. The first books were outlined by Edward Stratemeyer and his Stratemeyer Syndicate, written by ghostwriters and all credited to the house name of Victor Appleton.

A series of juvenile adventure novels that began in the early twentieth century, featuring technology (especially transport technology) as a major focus. Written under the pseudonym Victor Appleton -- actually Howard Garis for most of the novels, as well as W. Bert Foster, John Duffield, and Thomas M. Mitchell, for the Stratemeyer Syndicate.