The Graveyard Book (edit title)

• Rated 5 stars

“Excellent Middle School book”

• Rated 5 stars

“This is a great book for child and adult alike. I recommend for kids 12 and up. A really great story. I could not put it down.”

• Rated 1 stars

“Hard to get into. Did not enjoy at all.”

• Rated 3 stars

“I think I liked this. I'm not sure. It made me think . . . the premise was too creeptastic for me, though.

Was Silas a vampire? ”

• Rated 0 stars

“i like it”

• Rated 5 stars

“I'm now re-reading this. The story is imaginative: a boy raised by ghosts. The paradox is that he learns more than anyone to open his heart to living life to the fullest by living with ghosts in a graveyard.”

• Rated 5 stars

“Neil Gaiman. Enough said.”

• Rated 5 stars

“Everyday another Nobody is born, people who go through lives as nothing more than a fleeting glimpse of another person, the vague face where you think someone might have been there, the person you try to recall from class but cannot. Those people are people we would call Nobody. Have you ever experienced that? The person you swore you just saw standing there? The feeling that you are being watched but Nobody is there? If so, you have just met Nobody Owens, the latest character from the creative mind of Neil Gaiman (Coraline, Stardust, Sandman). The Graveyard Book starts with the worst scene in the book, the committing of three murders by a man named Jack. Now, while he is killing this family, the baby decides it is time to take a walk. This walk leads him to the local graveyard, where the very dead residents discover him and adopt him (give him the Freedom of the Graveyard) to protect him from this killer named Jack. Much as the boy in Kipling’s The Jungle Book learns from those around him how to survive and has a guardian, so does Nobody (Bod for short) who learns both the tricks of the spirits but also history, English and other subjects from the inhabitants of the grave. The reader takes a journey through Bod’s life, each chapter capturing a moment as we watch him grow in the graveyard, learn lessons and get closer to his destiny and discover why he needed to be killed while he was a baby and why it is still necessary for Jack to kill him. Combining the best elements of Gaiman’s writing, the book is a fun tale of growth, adventure and a little bit of horror.


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“I have read some of this but stopped. Not because it wasn't good but because there were other books I had wanted to read MORE.”

• Rated 4 stars

“This book tells the story of how a child at near birth is raised by his dead ancestors at a cemetery. His parents were murdered while he was young, and he stumbled onto the graveyard on his own. Throughout the course of the story, Bod, short for Nobody, learns many things in history through his ancestor's past. He learns how to speak every language, the history of his family and its secrets. But of course, he lives a normal life too. He goes to a regular school with regular kids and he is treated like a regular person. He soon befriends a girl named Scarlett and he shows her the graveyard. She doesn't believe her eyes but Bod tells her not to tell anyone. However, during the story, the killer of Bod's parents, is still out to get Bod.”