The Graveyard Book

Books | Juvenile Fiction / Fantasy & Magic

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Neil Gaiman

It takes a graveyard to raise a child. Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy—an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family.

Horror

Coming Of Age

Paranormal

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Author

Neil Gaiman

Pages

336

Publisher

Harper Collins

Published Date

2010-09-28

ISBN

0060530944 9780060530945

Ratings

Google: 3.5

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"⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"

Sher Free✌️

"Loved it! Very unique idea"

Meagan Khatthaname

"It was good, a little forlorn especially for a child growing up in a graveyard but it was interesting to read all the way through. I don’t think I had read a book similar to the story so big points on ingenuity and imagination. I’m amazed at how authors make characters that are kids so courageous and brave."

L H

"The metaphors and the word choices were just poetry. Now I know why everybody says to read Neal Gaiman! "

A P

Adelaide Ponte Usdin

"Love, love, love. It almost reads like short stories about Nobody Owens, the boy raised by a cemetary. However, by the end, the stories blend beautifully. I love the cast and the world it creates. (Full cast audio book - run, dont walk to it)."

Nova Quartz

"Great story"

Shinebox

"Audiobook "

Wendy T

"Haunting, but sweet and humorous. The story is well written and kept me engaged the whole way. The perfect spooky read!"

Hedera Rivers

"After finishing Piranesi and Howls Moving Castle, I had a hole in my heart. It was hard to find love in a book after two masterpieces like that. Then came the graveyard book. Oh my god. Helped bring joy back into my books, and was adorable! It was morbid, but not so much it was unbearable, it was morbid in the kind of way good things are. "