"Malice", Chris Wooding (Young Adult Fantasy & Graphic Novel)

"Malice" is the first Wooding book that I've read.  It's an interesting concept where the author changes from traditional storytelling to graphic novel format and then back again.  The idea is that children get their hands on an underground comic, gather some items like cat fur, tears and a feather, burn them and then say "Tall Jake take me away" six times (similar to other urban legends like CandyMan).  When you're alone, Tall Jake takes you away and you awake in a comic book world.  Readers of the graphic novel can see you and your actions from the "real world".  Children then fight to stay alive and get out of Malice.  If you die in the comic book, you die in real life.  If you return, you remember nothing.  It's a bit on the creepy side, but no overt violence.  I'd recommend this book for 7th grade and older, but not much younger than that.