The Walker children, John, Susan, Titty and Roger, who camped on an island in the Lake District and sailed the dinghy Swallow, win their “war” with the Blackett sisters, the Amazons, when Titty captures the Amazon boat at night.

Gus McCrae dies of an infection after being wounded in an attack, and Woodrow Call carries his body from Montana back to Texas to bury it.

Meggie, who has inherited her father Mo’s power to read characters out of books, uses words written by the author Fenoglio to destroy the Shadow, which kills the villain Capricorn instead.

Scipio, the “Thief Lord” who leads a gang of runaway children in Venice, rides a magic merry-go-round and becomes an adult.

Tristran Thorn learns he is the son of a Faerie princess and the rightful heir of Stormhold.

The Once-ler, who cut down all the Truffula trees, gives the last seed to the boy and tells him to plant it.

The army storms the vice president’s house, killing all the terrorists, and Roxane Coss is saved.

Twelve-year-old criminal genius Artemis Fowl wins his battle with the fairy police, LEPrecon, by escaping their time-stop and collecting a ton of fairy gold as ransom for Captain Holly Short.

Young adventurers Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley track down Jane Finn and the secret treaty she hid when the Lusitania sank.

Lettie Hempstock sacrifices herself to save the seven-year-old narrator from the hunger birds, and she is taken into the “ocean” at the end of the lane, the pond behind her farmhouse, to heal for many years.