TY  - BOOK
AU  - Landy,Derek
TI  - Skulduggery Pleasant
SN  - 9780007241620
AV  - PZ7.L231754 Sku 2007
U1  - 823.92 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London
PB  - HarperCollins Children's
KW  - Good and evil
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Skulduggery Pleasant (Fictitious character)
KW  - Juvenile fiction
KW  - Magicians
KW  - Skeleton
KW  - Young adult fiction
KW  - Children's stories
KW  - Fantasy
KW  - Teen fantasy fiction
KW  - Fantasy fiction
KW  - Wizards
KW  - fast
KW  - Magic
KW  - Juvenile works
KW  - Teen fiction
KW  - Fantasy fiction for children
KW  - gsafd
N1  - "Red House Children's Book Award; Overall Winner 2008"---Cover; 9-12 years old
N2  - Science fiction. "So you won't keep anything from me again?" He put his hand to his chest. "Cross my heart and hope to die." "Okay then. Though you don't actually have a heart," she said. "I know." "And technically, you've already died." "I know that too." "Just so we're clear." 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 intent on recovering a mysterious key, Stephanie finds help from an unusual source - the wisecracking skeleton of a dead wizard. When all hell breaks loose, it's lucky for Skulduggery that he's already dead. Though he's about to discover that being a skeleton doesn't stop you from being tortured, if the torturer is determined enough. And if there's anything Skulduggery hates, it's torture. Will evil win the day? Will Stephanie and Skulduggery stop bickering long enough to stop it? One thing's for sure: evil won't know what's hit it; 9-13 yrs
ER  -