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Jan 05, 2024
Bod lives in a graveyard. After his parents were murdered, he was found by the Owenses, a pair of ghosts. Over time, he becomes acquainted with other residents of the graveyard, like the vampire Silas, and gains supernatural abilities of…
Dec 25, 2023philinac27 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Age rating: 11+ The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman is a homage to The Jungle Book, but plenty of charm to stand on its own. After his parents are killed by a mysterious man named Jack, Nobody “Bod” Owens is adopted by a ghost couple,…
Nov 08, 2023
Read this book. Would listen to it again.
Nov 04, 2023twe218 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Middle school reading level but an excellent plot! A little spooky at parts but in a kid friendly way.
Sep 28, 2023
Multiple Recs! "The Graveyard Book is a supernatural, spooky story with dark humor and endearing characters. Great read for grades 5-8." - Sian K. "It’s scary-ish (it’s aimed at 10 year olds), but also really, really nice. The usual bad…
Jul 28, 2023zimmleanna rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
The start of the novel was disturbing, but necessary to set up the plot, but overall, this book was more endearing than frightening. After his family is murdered, Nobody Owens (Bod) is raised by ghosts in a graveyard. Sometimes living can…
Apr 05, 2023jl07 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
The Graveyard book is a fantasy novel by Neil Gaiman. The story starts with the man Jack who attempts to murder a family of four but a toddler manages to escape to a nearby graveyard. The toddler is taken in by the ghosts in the graveyard…
Feb 18, 2023susan_findlay rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
"Her father taught particle physics, but there were, Scarlett told Bod, too many people who wanted to teach particle physics and not enough people who wanted to learn it" Easily my favourite line in the book. Not a spoiler because it's…
Dec 18, 2022
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Nov 15, 2022jillybee72 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman takes us into a world between the living and the dead, inside a graveyard in Old Town London. Not too scary for a precocious 12 or 13 year old, but with a bit of violence and death.
Aug 06, 2022Topilk rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
It's pretty exciting, but not without flaws. In my opinion, it would be better to read 1, 2, then possibly 3(it still doesn't have major influence to the ending, but introduces some cool characters, and generally well-written), skip to…
Mar 22, 2022Berrie030711 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Maybe I'm missing something, but this one was BORING for me. If this were a ghost story at camp, I'd have fallen asleep into the campfire. [EDIT] Thank merciful heavens I was proven wrong. The story got way more interesting toward the…
Jan 26, 2022babya78 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Over a decade since its release, Neil Gaiman's fantasy The Graveyard Book still embodies storytelling at its finest. A masterpiece of YA fiction that seamlessly weaves themes of friendship, adopted families, and courage into a coming of…
Oct 20, 2021bettstop rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I love that Neil Gaiman writes for kids and young adults. His adult stories can be a bit dark for me but I like that he opens his mind to a younger self and writes things like The Graveyard Book. I listened to his audiobook of the same…
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Oct 12, 2021rvokey81 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Neil Gaiman can do no wrong in my opinion (have you read Coraline or Fortunately, the Milk?). My daughter and I used to read together until she got too old, and this was always on my list but we never read it. So I just read it by myself…
Jun 15, 2021TSCPL_Librarian_Deb rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
A boy grows up in a graveyard. Yes, it sounds strange and this is defnitely a fantasy but a delightful one. Bod (short fo Nobody) ended up in the graveyard after his entire family was murdered. While the killer was still trying to hunt him…
Apr 04, 2021sgcf rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I’ve only read one other book by Neil Gaiman ("The Ocean at the End of the Lane"), which was also a speculative fantasy, but for adults - it offered big psychological contemplations. "The Graveyard Book" seems to target the young reader…
Feb 27, 2021
the description alone reminds me of Brian Lumley's Necroscope series, THAT was Fantastic, so probably will look this one over.
Feb 26, 2021labraden rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
As a toddler, Nobody Owens, known as Bod, survives the death of his family at the hands of a killer named Jack. He then wanders into the local graveyard where he is taken in by Mr. and Mrs Owens, ghosts who never had children of their…
Oct 26, 2020JCLSarahZ rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
One of my absolute favorites. A captivating story about an orphan raised in a graveyard. When toddler Bod's parents are killed, the residents of a nearby graveyard take him in to raise as their own. Humorous and heartwarming with a…
Oct 20, 2020
Wasn't sure what to expect from this book after the very dark beginning, but it surprised me in some ways. Though a few details were left unexplained, I enjoyed -- for the most part -- the intricate plot, the characters, character…
Oct 09, 2020
The dead live the life of the living. In the book, the Graveyard, by Neil Geiman, a life of Nobody Owens is portrayed as he lives a life surrounded by the dead. When Bod, short for Nobody, was a young boy his family was brutally murdered…
Jun 29, 2020MAHPayne rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
This is the story of Nobody Owens, Bod for short. After his family is murdered, Bod somehow makes it to a cemetery up the hill from his house where he is discovered by its ghostly inhabitants. They realize that he is in grave danger from…
May 08, 2020dgiard rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Nobody Owens was a toddler when The Man Jack broke into his home and murdered his family. Young "Bod" survived because he wandered away from his home and into a nearby graveyard where the ghosts of the graveyard raised and protected…
May 04, 2020LadyDi52 rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
A real page-turner! I really liked his use of the 33rd president of the USA as a ghoul; you have to look him up, Gaiman never says who and why.