Wednesday, July 30, 2008

2008 Best Books for Young Adults (4)



Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy

A twelve year old girl named Stephanie had her uncle as her closest friend, and now he has passed away and has left his expensive villa to her. Stephanie is a fan of her uncle’s fictional horror books that she believes are just stories until she meets an investigator that turns out to be a skeleton. The skeleton known as Skulduggery Pleasant has found Stephanie to help him stop an ancient evil that her uncle talks about in his books. Together they will need to pull their strengths in order to save humankind from this evil. This was a good book to read to older elementary students, since they always like reading about scary stories. I really enjoyed the duo in this book and it showed readers, young kids, that everyone is scared of something just like the skeleton.

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