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Alan Garner books? Weirdstone of Brasingamen, Elidor……etc. A bit like a kids version of Tolkien.
Ah yes! I’d forgotten those. I read them as an adult, but really enjoyed them. They can get quite dark, too; the elves are not the same as those in Tolkien, they are much more amoral. There’s a sequence where the children are taken through the dwarf mines of Fundindelve, which gets horribly claustrophobic; a struggle to read if you have a real fear of closed-in places.
There’s a recent follow-up, too, but it’s certainly not aimed at children.
PS Obviously the Secret Seven were better that the famous five, hence the capitalisation. I challenge anyone to disagree
No disagreement here, I read a few of the FF books, then discovered a schoolfriend had the SS books, and I absolutely devoured them; that would be around age 9-10.