@7_prof +library ( )

Main character is a mixed group
Suggest late primaries, mainly boys
This is an adventure, in the best description of it. we have the mad professors which are both the good guys and the bad guy. I loved the concept of the ISNT which provided the transport from edinburgh to the far north. We had children who were not taotally reliant on the adults, they operated without them - yet one of them kept trying to phone home so his parents wouldnt worry (the others had been kidnaped)
One of the subplots involved a girl who's parents were trying to change her into the ideal that they wanted (bright and sporty) while she liked to hang about and play football. It was good at the end where the parents were seen to be in the wrong and she was fine as she was. a good posative message that was concealed within the general story line without distractng from it.
A good traditional childrents adventure, they did save the day (though the adults had to help in the end

Sam goes on holiday with Zara and Ben. They get into a big adventure with Zara and Ben's uncle. Meanwhile a tomboy gets into trouble with her rich self-obsessed mother who plots with her husband a terrible plot. It is to re-gene their daughter. She will have an operation and when she wakes up she will be exactly like her mother. ( )

Eleven-year-old Sam finds himself involved in a dangerous adventure when he and his new friends, brother and sister Ben and Zara, set off for the Arctic to try and rescue the siblings' great-uncle and five other professors from the mad scientist holding them prisoner.