TY - BOOK AU - Gaiman,Neil AU - McKean,Dave TI - The graveyard book SN - 9780060530921 AV - PR6057.A319 G73 2008 U1 - [Fic] 22 KW - Newbery Medal KW - Dead KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Cemeteries KW - Orphans KW - Paranormal fiction KW - Fictional Work KW - Occult fiction KW - gsafd KW - lcgft KW - Novels N1 - How Nobody came to the graveyard --; The new friend --; The hounds of God --; The witch's headstone --; Danse Macabre --; Interlude: The convocation --; Nobody Owens' school days --; Every man Jack --; Leavings and partings; McKean, Dave; 820; Lexile; Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning; MG+; 5.1; 10; Accelerated Reader; Grades 5-8; 5.1; 10.0; Quiz 125535; English fiction, vocabulary quiz available; Reading Counts RC; 6-8; 5.4; 17; Quiz: 45222 N2 - 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, bring 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 audeince 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. -- ER -