Lynne Reid Banks
Alice-by-Accident

Nine-year-old Alice must write about herself for a class assignment. In doing so, she sorts out her feelings about her prickly single mother, the father she has never met, and her flamboyant grandmother - plus all the strange, sometimes horrid, sometimes exciting events that have happened.

Enid Blyton
Secret Seven Win Through

When their old shed gets a spring clean the Secret Seven have to find a brand new meeting place for the holidays. But as soon as they find somewhere, they realise somebody else has been using it too. How dare they? It's time to set a trap and see what happens!

When Pip and Tim move into an old manor house, strange tapping noises and a hidden panel reveal Sebastian, a fifteenth century boy! He is pursuing his father's enemy, and soon Pip and Tim are caught in a web of magic and cunning. Their only hope is to join Sebastian in his desperate battle against evil....

Gene Kemp
Seriously Weird

Troy lives in a secret, locked-up world. His family think he is crazy, and then policemen start knocking on doors and Troy gets excluded from school. It takes Mrs Shepherd the science teacher, and a chocolate bean competition, for people to realise that Troy's view of life may be odd - but it is, in its own way, brilliant.