The Graveyard Book

The Graveyard Book

By Neil Gaiman

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Grades 6 - 8Grades 3 - 8X5.167380

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.

Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN-13: 9780062349187
ISBN-10: 006234918X
Published on 9/30/2014
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 352

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A pretty good book by Neil Gaiman. A young boy named Bud short for Body's parents were killed by Jack Frost, one of the evil Jacks. He lives among the graves with ghost friends. Run away with Bud, and help him go after Jack to protect himself.

This is another amazing book by Neil Gaiman. His writing is amazing and descriptive, and his use of language is brilliant! I find myself reading this book over and over!

I love Neil Gaiman's books! They are so eerie and wonderful! Unfortunately, i haven't had the chance to read this book yet, but i hope i will very soon!!

My favorite part in this book is when the boy went in to the graveyard and the man was after him but he was not gone.This book was about a boy who went into a graveyard and a man was after him and the ghosts were rasing the little boy until he was grown up.

My dad loves comic books and one of his favorite comic book authors is Neil Gaiman, and one day I was in my school library and I saw this book and it looked good so I picked it up and on the top it said Neil Gaiman so now I am reading it

This book was a wonderful book. The main character was very interesting, and his circumstances were especially interesting. There was a lot to take away from this book.

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I thought this book was very interesting. This book was a good book to keep me busy. To me I would sugest this book to my friends but some people start to read it and don't like it. I think that problem can be fixed by people reading it for longer because I agree that it is not that interesting at the begining. With that being said I do think this is a good book and highly recommend it.

This book is os good and the author does a really good job of making you have chills up your spine at the beginning. Its really creepy. the author makes everything seem slowmotion! I definitley reccomend it!

I really like this book so far because I like how the author writes at the beginning of the book, almost in slow motion. He describes every detail so well. At the beginning he gives you chills.The plot is really good and I wonder how he came up wirh the idea! You should definitely read it!

This book is simply horrifying in the first few pages a man steps in and kills he whole family, the dad on the bed the mom on the ground and the older child in his room but one child slips out the door and im at that part now i give this book 5 stars.

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