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Skulduggery Pleasant

by Derek Landy

Ages 11–13 Reading age 11 Novel Set in somewhere magical funnyadventurous

Twelve-year-old Stephanie inherits her uncle's house and his colleague: a wisecracking skeleton detective investigating who killed him.

A story about children, witches and wizards and a grown-up villain, funny and adventurous in tone. We would put it with children of 11–13, and at a reading age of about 11 for reading alone.

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