- Lloyd Alexander – Prydain Chronicles
- Theresa Breslin – Remembrance
- Agatha Christie – The Cases of Hercule Poirot
- Caroline Clooney – The Goddess of Yesteryear
- Eoin Colfer – Artemis Fowl; The Eternity Code; The Arctic Incident or The Opal Deception
- Susan Cooper – King of Shadows or The Dark is Rising
- Robert Cormier – The Chocolate War
- Gillian Cross – Tightrope
- Roald Dahl – Boy and Going Solo
- Anita Desai – A Village by the Sea
- J. Mead Faulkner - Moonfleet
- Anne Fine – The Tulip Touch
- Anne Frank – The Diary of Anne Frank
- Jamila Gavin – Coram Boy
- Karen Hesse – The Music of the Dolphins; The Stowaway or Witness
- Carl Hiaasen – Hoot
- Anthony Horowitz – Point Blank
- Henry James – The Turn of the Screw
- Jack London – White Fang
- Adeline Yen Mah – Chinese Cinderella
- Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca
- Geraldine McCaughrean – The Kite Rider
- Michael Morpurgo – My Friend Walter
- Beverley Naidoo – No Turning Back or Journey to Jo’Burg
- William Nicholson – The Windsinger
- Celia Rees – Witch Child
- Robert Swindells – Stone Cold
- Jill Paton Walsh – Gaffer Samson’s Luck
- Terry Pratchett – The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
- Philip Pullman – The Ruby in the Smoke; The Shadow in the North; The Tin Princess or The Tiger in the Well
- April Sinclair – Coffee will Make you Black
- Rosemary Sutcliff – Dragonslayer or Eagle of the Ninth
- J. R. R. Tolkein – The Hobbit
- Mark Twain – Huckleberry Finn
- Benjamin Zephaniah – Face or Refugee Boy