Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Welcome back! We’re starting our new monthly theme of Middle Grade March. All this month we’ll be talking about kids books, starting with Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy!

This dark fantasy has 15 books in the main sequence, plus a bunch of side novels, novellas, and a short story collections. I’ll help you sort them all out and decide which ones you want to read.

This series can be quite dark. It deals with spoooooky themes, violent deaths, and some lite-horror. These books are for ages 11 and up.

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00:00 Intro
02:00 The Concept
02:51 A Story in Four Genres
05:07 Magic and McGuffins
06:40 Flawed Characters
09:03 Phase One Books
10:23 Phase Two Books
11:53 Phase Three & Stand Alones
13:18 A Problem with Repetition
16:09 Is Horror appropriate for kids?
18:50 Representation
20:31 Content Warning
21:15 Is the Ending worth it?
21:52 How much should you try?
22:10