| Edition |
First HarperTrophy edition. |
| Description |
392 pages ; 20 cm |
| Note |
Includes an exclusive interview with the skeleton himself, Mr. Skulduggery Pleasant (p. [2-3]). |
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2010 Teen Nutmeg Book Award (nominee). |
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Includes short story, "The lost art of world domination" (p. [4-16]). |
| Contents |
Stephanie -- Will -- Little girl, all alone -- Secret war -- Meeting China sorrows -- Man apart -- Serpine -- Ghastly -- Troll beneath Westminster Bridge -- Gal in black -- Little bit of crime -- Vampires -- Red right hand -- Elemental magic -- Torture room -- What's in a name? -- Fabulous rescue indeed -- On the roof, at night -- Experiment -- Family curse -- Cave -- Scepter of the ancients -- Thoughts on dying horribly -- Planning for murder -- White cleaver -- Last stand of... -- No calm before the storm -- Carnage -- Deep in Dublin, death -- An end, a beginning. |
| Summary |
When twelve-year-old Stephanie inherits her weird uncle's estate, she must join forces with Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton mage, to save the world from the Faceless Ones. |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.9 10.0 114891. |
| Subject |
Magic -- Fiction.
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Fantasy.
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Magic -- Juvenile fiction.
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Fantasy fiction.
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Ireland -- Fiction.
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Uncles -- Fiction.
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Child wizards -- Fiction.
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Heirs -- Fiction.
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Heiresses -- Fiction.
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Magicians -- Fiction.
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Quests (Expeditions) -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Percival, Tom, 1977-, illustrator.
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| ISBN |
9780061231179 paperback |
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0061231177 paperback |
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