The Graveyard Book
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · September 30, 2008
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- Who it’s for
- A boy raised among the dead brings a playful, uncanny edge to a coming-of-age story.
- Themes
- A boy raised among ghosts, Worlds of the living and dead
- Genres
- Ghost Stories, Magic & Fantasy, Paranormal
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The original hardcover edition of a perennial favorite, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, which has sold more than one million copies and is the only novel to win both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal. Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place—he's the only living resident of a graveyard.
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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? The Graveyard Book is the winner of the Newbery Medal, the Carnegie Medal, the Hugo Award for best novel, the Locus Award for Young Adult novel, the American Bookseller Association’s “Best Indie Young Adult Buzz Book,” a Horn Book Honor, and Audio Book of the Year.
A Strange Upbringing
A boy raised among the dead brings a playful, uncanny edge to a coming-of-age story.
Come here for
- Ghostly customs and the art of fading from mortal sight
- A graveyard full of unusual guardians
Expect
- A sustained story moving between the worlds of the living and dead
- Uncanny touches balanced with an accessible feel
Where it sits
| Ghost Stories | 80% |
|---|---|
| Paranormal | 50% |
| Magic & Fantasy | 43% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Farm Animal Stories
- The Classics
- Alternative Family Stories
- Halloween Stories
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- Horror & Ghost Stories
- Magic & Fantasy
- Friendship
- New Experiences
- Authors
- Neil Gaiman
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- September 30, 2008
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- A boy raised among ghosts · Worlds of the living and dead
- Reading lane
- Farm Animal Stories