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The Graveyard Book /

Here's a fantastic ghost adventure story, laced with menace and humour.

When a baby escapes a murderer intent on killing the entire family, who would have thought it would find safety and security in the local graveyard?

Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn’t live in a graveyard. Brought up by the resident ghosts, ghouls and spectres, Bod has an eccentric childhood learning about life from the dead. But for Bod there is also the danger of the murderer still looking for him - after all, he is the last remaining member of the family.

A stunningly original novel deftly constructed over eight chapters, featuring every second year of Bod's life, from babyhood to adolescence. Will Bod survive to be a man?

GMDBOOK
ClassificationF GAI
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing UK, 2009
SubjectCemeteriesDark HumourFiction / Humorous / GeneralHumorHumor / GeneralHumourGhostsGhoulsJuvenile Fiction / Horror & Ghost Storiesghost storiesClassicClassic literatureClassical fiction
ISBN9780747594802
Additional ISBN
0747594805 / 9780060530945
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Notes

ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults
ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice
ALA Notable Children’s Book
Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Honor Book
Cooperative Children’s Book Center Choice
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children’s Book Award (Vermont)
Horn Book Fanfare
Hugo Award
Kirkus Reviews Best Children’s Book
New York Public Library Stuff for the Teen Age
New York Public Library's “One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing”
Newbery Medal

PRAISE:

★ "The Graveyard Book, by turns exciting and witty, sinister and tender, shows Gaiman at the top of his form. In this novel of wonder, Neil Gaiman follows in the footsteps of long-ago storytellers, weaving a tale of unforgettable enchantment." -New York Times Book Review
★ "Like a bite of dark Halloween chocolate, this novel proves rich, bittersweet and very satisfying." -Washington Post
★ "Wistful, witty, wise—and creepy. This needs to be read by anyone who is or has ever been a child." -Kirkus Reviews
★ "This is an utterly captivating tale that is cleverly told through an entertaining cast of ghostly characters. There is plenty of darkness, but the novel’s ultimate message is strong and life affirming….this is a rich story with broad appeal. " -Booklist
★ "Lucid, evocative prose and dark fairy-tale motifs imbue the story with a dreamlike quality. …this ghost-story-cum-coming-of-age-novel as readable as it is accomplished." -Horn Book
★ "One of the joys of reading Gaiman is how he subverts our expectations of magic, horror, fantasy and the mundane." -The Times
★ "This brief, dark, savoury adventure deserves to become a modern classic of children's writing." -Independent on Sunday
★ "Suspenseful, well-told and touching." -The Sunday Times
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