[mindcrime]

A few come to mind, over the course of my childhood up to and including high-school.

The "Mad Scientist's Club" series

The Great Brain

Those "Encyclopedia Brown" stories

The "The Three Investigators" series

The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

The original Doyle "Sherlock Holmes" canon

The Soul Of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder

The Lord of the Rings by Tolkien

Nineteen Eighty Four

[NathanielBaking]

+1 for Mad Scientist Club

[xhkkffbf]

I've got to agree. All four of them. Or at least the first three.

That is: _The Mad Scientist Club_ _More Adventures of the Mad Scientist Club_ _The Big Kerplop_ _Big Chunk of Ice_