In this Newbery Medal-winning novel, 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? And then there are being such as ghouls that aren't really one thing or the other.
The Graveyard Book won the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal and is a Hugo Award Winner for Best Novel.
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notesinthemargin (Grade: C+) Perfectly ordinary children's story - nothing special.
(Rated on Jul 15, 2014)
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TheRaven42 (Grade: A–) I love graveyards and this book spoke to me. I found it very endearing
(Rated on Jan 3, 2015)
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Wayne (Grade: B+) Stellar.
(Rated on Apr 18, 2015)
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poeticlibrarian (Grade: A) More please! This was a great story - I love it when the fantastical elements (ghosts, vampires, werewolves, the sleer) are treated in a completely matter-of-fact manner. I would have thought that I would have been satisfied with the book ending when Bod must leave the cemetery (it is the "graveyard" book after all) but I would happily follow these characters through more adventures.
(Rated on May 31, 2016)
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bookappeal (Grade: A) Neil Gaiman reads his own tale of a toddler who escapes a murderer named Jack, and wanders into an old, abandoned graveyard where an elderly deceased (and childless) couple agree to take care of him. Nobody "Bod" Owens can see and hear the dead as well as the living and doesn't realize the difference until he starts to grow older. His guardian, the dark and mysterious Silas, is neither dead nor alive and can act for Bod in the regular world, buying him food and arranging tutors. But Bod lear
(Rated on Oct 25, 2015)
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