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Gr 5-8 Somewhere in contemporary Britain, "the man Jack" uses his razor-sharp knife to murder a family, but the youngest, a toddler, slips away. The boy ends up in a graveyard, where the ghostly inhabitants adopt him to keep him safe. Nobody Owens, so named because he "looks like nobody but himself," grows up among a multigenerational cast of characters from different historical periods that includes matronly Mistress Owens; ancient Roman Caiu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

When a toddler fortuitously escapes the murder of his family by "the man Jack," he is taken in by the ghostly denizens of a local graveyard, renamed Nobody Owens, and ushered through childhood by the kindly Mr. and Mrs. Owens and the enigmatic Silas. (As "Bod" soon learns, there are more kinds of people than just the living and the dead, and Silas falls outside those categories.) Growing up in this strange setting entails many adventures, from getting kidnapped by ghouls, to procuring a headstone for ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

After fortuitously escaping the murder of his family, a toddler is taken in by the ghostly denizens of a local graveyard. Growing up in...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

What if Rudyard Kipling’s Mowgli was raised not by animals but by ghosts? Neil Gaiman answers that question with wit, elegance, and gothic flair in The Graveyard Book. The novel begins with murder and ends with revenge, but in between the story attains a whimsical, even light-hearted, quality. One imagines Gaiman exploring every square inch of his premise and taking note of each delightful absurdity he encountered. What would a boy raised in a graveyard be like? What would he know a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More