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The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman, 2008
HarperCollins
336 pp.
ISBN-13: 9780060530945
Summary
Winner of the following awards: 2009 Newbery Medal Winner; 1009 Hugo Award Winner for Best Novel; 2010 Carnegie Medal Winner
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. (From the publisher.)