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Mystery and adventure stories
Children solving mysteries
- The Mystery Kids series by Fiona Kelly. She also writes The Mystery Club series, for slightly older children
- The Famous Five, by Enid Blyton
- The Outfit by Robert Swindells
- Malorie Blackman e.g. Hacker, Antidote
- Agent Z series by Mark Haddon. Well, perhaps these should be in the "Funny" list, rather than "Adventure", since they're hilarious. They're about a group of boys with a secret society who set about solving mysteries.
Choose-your-own-adventure books
- Give Yourself Goosebumps is a series by R.L Stine. It starts like a normal Goosebumps book, but you can decide how the story turns out, by making decisions along the way
- Fighting Fantasy series by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. These are the original choose-your-own-adventure books, and all are set in a world of heroes and dragons and monsters.
- Usborne Puzzle Adventures
Survive!
- Gary Paulsen has written a lot of books about boys who end up stranded in the wilderness and have to survive alone. Hatchet is the most popular of these.
- Survive! is a series by Jack Dillon
- Danger! is a series by Tony Bradman
