Enid Blyton
Good Old Secret Seven

There are strange happenings at Torling Castle. When Janet looks through Peter's telescope and spots a face at the window, the Seven realise that someone is hiding out in the ruined tower, making the resident jackdaws very unsettled. Who is it, and what do they want? The Secret Seven investigate ...

Diana Hendry
Minders

Scully lives with his parents in an ordinary-looking semi-detached house. But they are definitely not an ordinary family. Scully's dad mends and sells clocks, but he's actually a Wizard and Scully's mum can see into the future. Scully himself is a Wizard-in-waiting - a trainee.

Shackleton, Scott, Amundsen. Three men battling across the high Atlantic plateau, battered by shrieking blizzards, skin blackened with frostbite, eyes burning with snow-blindness. Three ambitious, driven men. Each desperate to be first at the South Pole. But there can be only one winner....

Brian Jacques
Martin the Warrior, Book 3: The Battle of Marshank

Badrang and his horde are advancing towards Marshank. But Brome and Felidoh are also amassing an army to attack the fortress, in the name of fur and freedom. Martin, too, must return, for he has vowed to regain his father's sword and liberate Marshank.