The Graveyard Book

By Neil Gaiman; Dave McKean (Illustrator)
(Thorndike Press, Hardcover, Large Print, 9781410414410, 373pp.)

Publication Date: April 2009

Other Editions of This Title: eBook, Paperback (October 2008), Hardcover (October 2008), Hardcover (September 30, 2008), Library Binding (September 30, 2008), Compact Disc (September 30, 2008), Audio Cassette (January 2008), Compact Disc (January 2008)

Categories: Horror & Ghost Stories, Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic

Selected by Indie Booksellers for the Fall 2008 Kids' List

“A delightfully layered story of Nobody Owens, who is raised by the semi-living and the dead in a graveyard. Gaiman uses wit and his depth of knowledge of the arcane to create a safe and nurturing world for the young orphan to grow and thrive in. This will be a joy for all ages!”

-- Jane Jacobs, Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA

Description

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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