The Fablehaven books by Brandon Mull might qualify - they're very much in the old-school mold of "ordinary kids discover magical stuff happening around them". (Despite that, I had to quit reading the series because I was too disgusted by the kids' approach to indigenous cultures -- which basically amounts to "Whee, steal their stuff, it's awesome!" Plus a Pokemon-like "gotta catch 'em all!" focus on capturing and "collecting", i.e. enslaving, sentient magical creatures. Yeah, the books are not without issues.)

I don't think I'd realized 'til you asked this question how the whole YA zeitgeist seems to have swung from ordinary kids having magical adventures, to seemingly ordinary kids discovering their own magical specialness. That's really interesting.