London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC. Very Good. 2008. Reprint; Fourteenth Printing. Paperback. 19.8 X 2 X 13.3 centimeters . Light shelf wear with slight bumps to spine extremities, light foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Fourteenth printing of Bloomsbury paperback edition, 2008. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover artwork and internal illustrations by Chris Riddell. ; B&W Illustrations; 304 pages; Winner of both the British Carnegie Medal and the American Newbery Medal recognizing the year's best children's books, the first time both awaded the same work. Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, raised and educated by ghosts. There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard. But it is in the land of the living that the real danger lurks, for it is there that the man Jack lives - the man who has already brutally murdered Bod's family... .

Synopsis

The Graveyard Book is a children's fantasy novel by British-born author Neil Gaiman. The story is about a boy named Nobody Owens who, after his family is killed by a mysterious man, is subsequently adopted and raised by the occupants of an old graveyard. Gaiman's first full-length children's novel since the bestselling and widely acclaimed Coraline, The Graveyard Book won the 2009 Hugo and Newbery Awards, as well as a Locus Award for best YA novel.

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On Oct 7 2014, a reader said:

I liked the story about a boy adopted by graveyard ghosts after his family is murdered and how they must protect him and teach him to protect himself from the person that still wants him dead.

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Bookseller: Books in Bulgaria (BG)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 36515
Title: The Graveyard Book
Author: Gaiman, Neil
Illustrator: Riddell, Chris
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: Reprint; Fourteenth Printing
ISBN 10: 0747594805
ISBN 13: 9780747594802
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 2008
Keywords: 19.8 X 2 X 13.3 centimeters
Bookseller catalogs: Children's Books;

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Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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