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The Graveyard Book Hardcover - 2008

by Neil Gaiman; Dave McKean (Illustrator); Foreword by Margaret Atwood

In his first full-length novel for middle-graders since the international bestseller "Coraline," Neil Gaiman introduces Bod, a boy who is the only living resident of a graveyard. Can a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead?


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The original hardcover edition of a perennial favorite, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, which has sold more than one million copies and is the only novel to win both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal.

Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place--he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their ghostly teachings--such as the ability to Fade so mere mortals cannot see him.

Can a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead?

The Graveyard Book is the winner of the Newbery Medal, the Carnegie Medal, the Hugo Award for best novel, the Locus Award for Young Adult novel, the American Bookseller Association's "Best Indie Young Adult Buzz Book," a Horn Book Honor, and Audio Book of the Year.

From the rear cover

Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy.

He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead.

There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer.

But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack--who has already killed Bod's family. . . .

Beloved master storyteller Neil Gaiman returns with a luminous new novel for the audience that embraced his New York Times bestselling modern classic Coraline. Magical, terrifying, and filled with breathtaking adventures, the graveyard book is sure to enthrall readers of all ages.

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  • Title The Graveyard Book
  • Author Neil Gaiman; Dave McKean (Illustrator); Foreword by Margaret Atwood
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st/1st
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher HarperCollins, New York
  • Date 2008-10-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780060530921 / 0060530928
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5.8 x 1.3 in (20.57 x 14.73 x 3.30 cm)
  • Ages 10 to 13 years
  • Grade levels 5 - 8
  • Reading level 820
  • Library of Congress subjects Orphans, Supernatural
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008013860
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • ALA Best Books Young Adults, 03/15/2009, Page 13
  • ALA Notable Children's Books, 03/15/2009, Page 22
  • Asimov's Science Fiction, 12/01/2009, Page 108
  • Booklist, 09/15/2008, Page 54
  • Booklist Ed Choice Youth, 01/01/2009, Page 13
  • Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 10/01/2008, Page 0
  • Entertainment Weekly, 02/20/2009, Page 72
  • Horn Book Magazine, 11/01/2008, Page 703
  • Hornbook Guide to Children, 01/01/2009, Page 0
  • Kirkus Best Children's Books, 11/15/2008, Page 12
  • Kirkus Review - Children, 08/15/2008, Page 879
  • Library Journal, 12/09/2008, Page 0
  • New York Times Book Review, 02/22/2009, Page 18
  • People Weekly, 03/02/2009, Page 43
  • Publishers Weekly, 09/29/2008, Page 82
  • School Library Journal, 10/01/2008, Page 144
  • Voice of Youth Advocates, 08/01/2008, Page 0
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