Skulduggery Pleasant

She's twelve. He's dead. But together they're going to save the world. Hopefully.

The iconic first book in the bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series.

Stephanie's uncle Gordon is a writer of horror fiction. But when he dies and leaves her his estate, Stephanie learns that while he may have written horror, it certainly wasn't fiction.

Pursued by evil forces, Stephanie finds help from an unusual source - the wisecracking skeleton of a dead sorcerer...

Author: Derek Landy
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
Published: 05/01/2018
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780008248789

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.9
Point Value: 10
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 114891 / Skulduggery Pleasant/Scepter of the Ancients


Review Citation(s):
School Library Journal 05/01/2018 pg. 86

About the Author
Landy, Derek: -

Derek Landy lives near Dublin. Before writing his children's story about a sharply-dressed skeleton detective, he wrote the screenplays for a zombie movie and a murderous horror film. "I think my career-guidance teacher is spinning in her grave," he says, "or she would be if she were dead."