First Clues: Mysteries for Kids, your source for information on over 100 mystery series for children and young adults where each series is conveniently listed under three different age categories (New Sleuth, ages 4 to 7; Future Sleuth, aged 7 to 10; and Sleuth in Training, ages 10 and older), is pleased to feature another series of mysteries on our website.
The Skulduggery Pleasant mysteries feature the eponymous detective, a well-dressed, wise-cracking, living-dead, skeleton magician who takes on 12-year-old Stephanie Edgely as an apprentice, replacing her with a clone so she can devote her full-time energies to fighting crime.
The first book of the series, Skulduggery Pleasant, introduces the detective and his apprentice Stephanie. Skulduggery may be long dead, but he is also a mage who dodged the grave so that he could save the world from an ancient evil. But to defeat it, he'll need the help of his new partner, a not so innocent pre-teenage girl. They are quickly caught up in a battle to stop evil forces from acquiring Stephanie's recently deceased uncle's most prized possession -- the Sceptre of the Ancients. The Ancients were the good guys, an extinct race of uber-magicians from the early days of the earth, and the scepter is their most dangerous weapon, one capable of killing anyone and destroying anything. Back in the day, they used it to banish the bad guys, the evil Faceless Ones. Unfortunately, in the way of bad guys everywhere, the Faceless Ones are staging a comeback and no one besides our two heroes believes in the Faceless Ones, or even that the Sceptre is real.
The second and most recent book in the series, Playing with Fire, was published earlier this year.
These mysteries, recommended for sleuths aged 10 and older, are written by Derek Landy. For more information about the characters and the series visit SkulduggeryPleasant.com.
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