Secondhand Skulduggery Pleasant Chapter Book (Age 10-14) Bargain Book Box SP4266

Secondhand Skulduggery Pleasant Chapter Book (Age 10-14) Bargain Book Box SP4266

Fifteen Derek Landy paperbacks: Skulduggery Pleasant books 1 to 11 in an unbroken run, three later volumes, and the final book of his Demon Road trilogy. A wisecracking skeleton detective and a teenage girl fight sorcerers in modern Ireland, and the series gets darker as its readers get older.

1. Kingdom of the Wicked — Derek Landy — Ordinary teenagers across Ireland are suddenly developing magic and using it badly. Valkyrie also falls into a parallel world where the villains won the war. Book seven.
2. The Dying of the Light — Derek Landy — Darquesse, the sorcerer destined to end the world, is finally loose, and everyone knows who she used to be. Book nine, and the ending of the original series.
3. Seasons of War — Derek Landy — Skulduggery and Valkyrie lead a team into another dimension to stop a war before it reaches ours. Book thirteen: same trouble, different world.
4. Death Bringer — Derek Landy — The Necromancers have found their saviour, a girl who will kill half the world to save the rest. Book six, with the biggest secret about Skulduggery’s past in it.
5. A Soul Full of Shadows — Derek Landy — One of the newest Skulduggery novels. The cover asks what’s the worst that could happen, and Landy usually answers that question in full.
6. Mortal Coil — Derek Landy — Thousands of body-stealing Remnants escape and possess half of Ireland, friends included. Meanwhile Valkyrie is hiding something terrible about herself. Book five.
7. Playing with Fire — Derek Landy — Baron Vengeous breaks out of prison to raise a patchwork monster made from the remains of a dead god. Book two, with the series already at full speed.
8. Resurrection — Derek Landy — Five years on, Valkyrie is back, damaged and reluctant, and a schoolboy called Omen Darkly is sent to spy in his own school. Book ten opens the second series, so new readers can begin here.
9. Midnight — Derek Landy — A killer takes Valkyrie’s little sister, and Valkyrie has until midnight to find her, alone. Book eleven, the fastest and most frightening of the run.
10. Skulduggery Pleasant — Derek Landy — Stephanie’s uncle dies and leaves her his house, and a skeleton in a good suit turns up at the reading of the will. The first book, and one of the best openings in children’s fantasy.
11. The Faceless Ones — Derek Landy — Someone is murdering the world’s Teleporters, to open a gate that should stay shut. Book three, ending on a cliffhanger that had readers counting the days.
12. Dead or Alive — Derek Landy — The old gods are closer to returning than ever, and half the magical world is cheering them on. Book fourteen.
13. American Monsters — Derek Landy — Amber, a teenager who turns into a horned demon, runs out of road and has to face the Shining Demon. The last of the Demon Road trilogy, for older readers.
14. Dark Days — Derek Landy — Skulduggery is trapped in a world of monsters, and Valkyrie will do anything to get him back. A club of old enemies wants revenge on them both. Book four.
15. Last Stand of Dead Men — Derek Landy — War breaks out between the world’s sorcerers, and Ireland stands alone. Book eight; nobody is safe in it, and Landy means that.