The Graveyard Book

The original hardcover edition of a perennial favorite, The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, which has sold more than one million copies and is the only novel to win both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal.

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?

The Graveyard Book is the winner of the Newbery Medal, the Carnegie Medal, the Hugo Award for best novel, the Locus Award for Young Adult novel, the American Bookseller Association's "Best Indie Young Adult Buzz Book," a Horn Book Honor, and Audio Book of the Year.

Author: Neil Gaiman
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 10/01/2008
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Library Binding
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780060530938
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.1
Point Value: 10
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus
Quiz #/Name: 125535 / Graveyard Book


Award: Grand Canyon Reader Award - Nominee
Award: Golden Archer Award - Nominee
Award: Locus Awards - Winner
Award: Greenaway Medal - Nominee
Award: Carnegie Medal - Winner
Award: Young Reader's Choice Award - Nominee
Award: Kentucky Bluegrass Award - Winner
Award: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award - Nominee
Award: Golden Archer Award - Nominee
Award: Great Stone Face Book Award - Nominee
Award: Volunteer State Book Awards - Nominee
Award: Evergreen Young Adult Book Award - Nominee
Award: Garden State Teen Book Award - Winner
Award: Sunshine State Young Reader's Award - Nominee


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Review - Children 08/15/2008 pg. 879
Booklist 09/15/2008 pg. 54
School Library Journal 10/01/2008 pg. 144
Horn Book Magazine 11/01/2008 pg. 703
Kirkus Best Children's Books 11/15/2008 pg. 12
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 11/01/2008 pg. 70 - Recommended
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 10/01/2008
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2009 - Outstanding, Noteworthy In Style

About the Author
McKean, Dave: -

Dave McKean is best known for his work on Neil Gaiman's Sandman series of graphic novels and for his CD covers for musicians from Tori Amos to Alice Cooper. He also illustrated Neil Gaiman's picture books The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, The Wolves in the Walls, and Crazy Hair. He is a cult figure in the comic book world, and is also a photographer.

Atwood, Margaret: -

Margaret Atwood, whose work has been published in more than forty-five countries, is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry, critical essays, and graphic novels. In addition to The Handmaid's Tale, now an award-winning TV series, her novels include Cat's Eye, short-listed for the 1989 Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy; The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize; The MaddAddam Trilogy; The Heart Goes Last; and Hag-Seed. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, the Franz Kafka International Literary Prize, the PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Los Angeles Times Innovator's Award. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in Great Britain for services to literature and her novel The Testaments won the Booker Prize and was longlisted for The Giller Prize. She lives in Toronto.

Gaiman, Neil: -

Neil Gaiman is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of books for children and adults whose award-winning titles include Norse Mythology, American Gods, The Graveyard Book, Good Omens (with Terry Pratchett), Coraline, and The Sandman graphic novels. Neil Gaiman is a Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR and Professor in the Arts at Bard College.