The graveyard book /
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, bring 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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
HarperCollins Pub.,
[2008]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberymedal Table of contents Teaching Aid - TeachingBooks.net http://www.neilgaiman.com/ http://journal.neilgaiman.com/ Neil Gaiman Reads The Graveyard Book Table of contents |
| Summary: | 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, bring 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 audeince 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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| Physical Description: | 312 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Audience: | 820 |
| Awards: | Newbery Medal, 2009 CILIP Carnegie Medal Kentucky Bluegrass Award, 2010 |
| ISBN: | 9780060530921 0060530928 9780060530938 0060530936 9780060530945 0060530944 9780062081551 0062081551 9780329709020 032970902X 9780062349187 006234918X |