Derek Landy
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
"Stephanie's uncle Gordon is a writer of horror fiction. But when he dies and leaves her his estate, Stephanie learns that while he may have written horror it certainly wasn't fiction. Pursued by evil forces, Stephanie finds help from an unusual source - the wisecracking skeleton of a dead sorcerer..."--Back cover.
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When the evil Baron Vengeous escapes from prison, Detective Skulduggery Pleasant and his apprentice, Valkyrie Cain, have just two days to recapture him or the Baron's creature, the Grotesquery, may summon the Faceless Ones back to their world.
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Fourteen-year-old Valkyrie and the skeleton mage, Skulduggery Pleasant, try to foil a plot set in motion fifty years before to find and open the gate that will allow the Faceless Ones to return to this reality.
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
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.
5) Mortal coil
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Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are back--just in time to see their whole world get turned upside down. With Valkyrie struggling to protect her dark secret, Skulduggery and the gang are more vulnerable than ever, just as a plague of body-snatching Remnants are released upon the world.
6) Dark days
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"He's dead. She's still in high school. But together they're going to save the world. Skulduggery is gone, sucked into a parallel dimension. There is no official plan to save him. But Valkyrie's never had much time for plans..."--Back cover.
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Think you’ve seen anything yet? You haven’t. Because the Death Bringer is about to rise…The Necromancers no longer need Valkyrie to be their Death Bringer, and that’s a Good Thing.There’s just one catch. There’s a reason the Necromancers don’t need her any more. And that’s because they’ve found their Death Bringer already, the person who will dissolve the doors between life and death.And that’s a very, very Bad Thing…
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 9
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 24
Description
To find Darquesse before she can destroy the world, Skulduggery Pleasant gathers together a team of soldiers, monster hunters, and criminals.
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 7
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Across the land, normal people are suddenly developing wild and unstable powers. Infected by a rare strain of magic, they are unwittingly endangering their own lives and the lives of the people around them. Terrified and confused, their only hope lies with the Sanctuary. Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain are need now more than ever. And then there's the small matter of Kitana. A normal teenage girl who, along with her normal teenage friends,...
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 8
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
War has finally come. But it's not a war between good and evil, or light and dark--it's a war between Sanctuaries. For too long, the Irish Sanctuary has teetered on the brink of world-ending disaster, and the other Sanctuaries around the world have had enough. Allies turn to enemies, friends turn to foes, and Skulduggery and Valkyrie must team up with the rest of the Dead Men if they're going to have any chance at all of maintaining the balance of...
11) Dead or alive
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 14
Pub. Date
2021
Description
In a matter of days, the world will change. Billions of lives will be wiped away in a final, desperate search for the Child of the Faceless Ones - destined to bring back humankind's ancient overlords. To prevent this, Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain have one last - terrible - option: the assassination of Damocles Creed. Now Valkyrie must decide who she wants to be: the hero who risks everything for a noble ideal, or the killer who sacrifices...
12) Bedlam
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 12
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 21
Description
While Valkyrie is off trying to recover her sister's lost soul, it is up to Omen Darkly to be the hero and save thousands of innocent people.
13) Midnight
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 11
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Description
For years, Valkyrie Cain has struggled to keep her loved ones safe from harm, plunging into battle-time and time again-by Skulduggery Pleasant's side, and always emerging triumphant. But now the very thing that Valkyrie fights for is in danger as a ruthless killer snatches her little sister. With Skulduggery racing to catch up and young sorcerer Omen scrambling along behind, Valkyrie only has six hours to find Alice before it's too late.
14) Seasons of war
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 13
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
War is coming. To avert catastrophe, Skulduggery and Valkyrie are sent on a secret mission that takes them away from everything they know, to a forsaken land of magic and grim, unrelenting terror. It is here that Valkyrie will have to fight the hardest - not only against the enemies who want her dead, but also against her own self-destructive impulses. It's only by crawling through darkness that she'll be able to once again stand in the light...
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When the evil Baron Vengeous escapes from prison, Detective Skulduggery Pleasant and his apprentice, Valkyrie Cain, have just two days to recapture him or the Baron's creature, the Grotesquery, may summon the Faceless Ones back to their world.
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 15
Pub. Date
2022
Description
The second cycle of the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series comes to a thrilling end. You are not ready... The Faceless Ones have returned to our universe. The bad guys have won. With the end of everything just days away - and no longer able to rely on Valkyrie Cain - Skulduggery must make allies of enemies if he's going to stand any chance of saving what's left of the world. And just when things are looking their bleakest, they...
18) Resurrection
Author
Series
Skulduggery Pleasant volume 10
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Description
"Valkyrie Cain has been out of action for years, recovering from the war against her alter-ego Darquesse, which nearly destroyed her and everyone else. Some things never change though: bad people still want to do bad things, and Skulduggery Pleasant is still there to stop them. When Skulduggery learns of a plot to resurrect a terrifying evil, he persuades Valkyrie to join him for just 24 hours. But they need someone else on their team, someone inconspicuous,...
19) Avengers: beyond
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Someone has been manipulating the Avengers for months, altering the very fabric of reality in an attempt to prepare the planet for a threat that could destroy everything. Now this all-powerful puppeteer is about to be dragged, kicking and screaming, into the light. Meanwhile, as violence tears New York apart, Janet Van Dyne fights not only to save the lives of her fellow heroes, but also a friendship! But time may have run out, for the Lost One has...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"An alien attack--a city warped--and Captain Marvel looking to the Avengers with murderous intent! Then, the Avengers are in chains, and their only hope lies with their greatest hero: Doctor Doom?! An army of Red Skulls threatens to overwhelm them, a cadre of bloodthirsty killers will hunt them, and even Spider-Man is out to get them! But who's behind this madness, altering the very fabric of reality over and over again?"--