The Graveyard Book Hardcover - 2008

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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• ALA Notable Children's Books, 03/15/2009, Page 22
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• 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, 02/15/2009, Page 15
• 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