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Binding: Library Binding
EAN: 9780060530938
ISBN: 0060530936
Label: HarperCollins
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: October 01, 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Release Date: September 30, 2008
Studio: HarperCollins

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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.






Rating: - big wind-up, no finish
Perhaps the rave reviews here are because this book actually makes sense as part of some larger series by this author. If you aren't familiar with the complete Gaiman, tho', you might find this book hugely disappointing. It starts really well, with a small boy escaping his family's murder and being taken in by ghosts in a graveyard, but you'll never get any real answers. Why were his parents killed? (It has to do with an unexplained prophecy, and you never find out why this kid, or who made the ... Read More

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Rating: - In a word, exceptional
There are few writers out there today who have the ability to keep me totally spellbound. David Almond, for sure. A handful of adult novelists. One author who gets my undivided attention every time with his mastery of language and devotion to limitless imagination is Neil Gaiman. Whether he's writing graphic novels, short stories, sci-fi novels or fiction for young adults, he always brings his "A" game to the table. His most recent work, THE GRAVEYARD BOOK, takes his standard "A" game to a whole new ... Read More

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Rating: - the graveyard protects its own in an eerie coming-of-age story
Neil Gaiman writes with a light touch, tenderly drawing back the curtains on his stories. "The Graveyard Book" is an eerie tale of a boy who grows up in a graveyard, but the eerieness is not where you would expect it to be. His adoptive ghostly parents and the other residents of graveyard are normal to the boy. Outside the graveyard (both in the world of the living and in the supernatural world), though, the adventures are frightening. The boy tackles these adventures, as well as his own advancement ... Read More

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Rating: - It Takes a Graveyard
There is a moment in Gaiman's opus Sandman which stands out to this day. As punishment to a writer, a power curses him with an endless flow of ideas which he can neither control nor even pause to write (the two that I remember were about a "were-goldfish" and a man who inherits a library card to the great library at Alexandria). What stood out was how each of the ideas was intriguing as it was bizarre. Reading the Grave Yard Book I am reminded of the question that occurred to me at the time - how close ... Read More

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Rating: - Macabre and Fascinating -- A Modern Grimm's Fairy Tale
I find it fascinating that so many reviewers think that darkness and grim plot devices are anything new in children's literature. L. Frank Baum, who gave us The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 100th Anniversary Edition (Books of Wonder), was especially fond of decapitations, and no one can say that the Brothers Grimm shied away from blood or gore in telling their "happily-ever-after" ditties.

But a well-told story is not as common as a merely scary one -- and the story of Nobody Owens, raised by ghosts ... Read More

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