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|title=Skulduggery Pleasant

|author=Derek Landy

|buy=Yes

|borrow=Yes

|pages=368

|publisher=Harper Collins Children's Books

|date=April 2007

|isbn=978-0007241613

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Stephanie's Uncle Gordon writes best-selling horror books. He's very good at it and he's made a fortune. But when Uncle Gordon dies and leaves her his fortune, nobody is more surprised than Stephanie. She wasn't expecting anything of the kind. And that's not the only surprise in store for Stephanie. Within days of Uncle Gordon's death, she narrowly escapes an abduction attempt, rescued by a strange figure who had appeared at both Gordon's funeral and at the reading of his will. Skulduggery Pleasant is a detective, but he's not your average sleuth. He's a living skeleton and a sorcerer of tremendous power to boot. It turns out that Gordon's books weren't fiction after all. Living skeletons exist. Sorcerers exist. Vampires exist. And a nasty man called Nefarious Serpine is trying to destroy the world. He needs a key and he thinks Stephanie has it.

Children who like their fantasy stories to come with humour attached might also enjoy Terry Pratchett's [[The Carpet People]] and those who like more horror than camp will enjoy Darren Shan's [[Demonata series]].

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Lucy Beadle

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Re-reading the review, I think I've been unclear! I meant to say that I personally don't like worldbuilding, which is why I prefer real-world fantasies. I think children, actually, like both. They like real-world fantasies because they can keep on hoping to find some magic themselves one day. But children are also magpies, aren't they? They love collecting stuff and worldbuilding buys right into that. I have a son right here who's had enough worldbuilding fads in books, trading cards, online games and TV shows to have known to make that properly clear! Sorry!