The graveyard book / Neil Gaiman ; with illustrations by Dave McKean.

By: Gaiman, Neil [author.]Contributor(s): McKean, Dave [illustrator.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Gaiman, Neil. Graveyard book ; Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2014Copyright date: ©2008Edition: Revised paperback editionDescription: 313 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type: still image | text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780062349187Subject(s): Supernatural -- Juvenile fiction | Supernatural -- Young adult fiction | Cemeteries -- Young adult fiction | Orphans -- Young adult fiction | Dead -- Young adult fiction | Young adult fiction | Ghost stories | Dead -- Fiction | Supernatural -- Fiction | Cemeteries -- Fiction | Orphans -- Fiction | Orphans -- Juvenile fiction | Cemeteries -- Juvenile fiction | Dead -- Juvenile fiction | Cemeteries | Dead | Orphans | Paranormal fiction | Paranormal fictionGenre/Form: Paranormal fiction. | Paranormal fiction. | Ghost stories. | Fiction. | Juvenile works. DDC classification: 823.914 LOC classification: PZ7.G1273 | Gr 2014Online resources: Cover image
Contents:
How Nobody came to the graveyard -- New friend -- Hounds of God -- Witch's headstone -- Danse Macabre -- Interlude: Convocation -- Nobody Owens' school days -- Every man Jack -- Leavings and partings.
Awards: Newbery Medal, 2009.Summary: HORROR & GHOST STORIES, CHILLERS. A commemorative edition of a perennial favorite--The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, which has sold over one million copies and is the only novel to win both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal. Special content in this edition includes the story behind The Graveyard Book from Neil Gaiman and sketches by Dave McKean. Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place-he's the only living resident of a graveyard. 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? And then there are being such as ghouls that aren't really one thing or the other. Ages 9+
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How Nobody came to the graveyard -- New friend -- Hounds of God -- Witch's headstone -- Danse Macabre -- Interlude: Convocation -- Nobody Owens' school days -- Every man Jack -- Leavings and partings.

HORROR & GHOST STORIES, CHILLERS. A commemorative edition of a perennial favorite--The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, which has sold over one million copies and is the only novel to win both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal. Special content in this edition includes the story behind The Graveyard Book from Neil Gaiman and sketches by Dave McKean. Bod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place-he's the only living resident of a graveyard. 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? And then there are being such as ghouls that aren't really one thing or the other. Ages 9+

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Newbery Medal, 2009.

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