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The graveyard book

Gaiman, Neil. (Author). McKean, Dave, (ill.).

Summary: An orphaned boy is raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780060530921 (trade bdg.)
  • ISBN: 0060530928 (trade bdg.)
  • ISBN: 9780060530938 (lib bdg.)
  • ISBN: 0060530936 (lib bdg.)
  • ISBN: 9780060530945
  • Physical Description: print
    312 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : HarperCollins Pub., c2008.

Content descriptions

Awards Note:
Newbery Medal book, 2009.
Subject: Dead Fiction
Cemeteries Fiction
Orphans Fiction

Available copies

  • 5 of 5 copies available at Kenton County.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 5 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Covington Branch J GAIMA N (Text) 33126020872010 JFiction Available -
Covington Branch YA GAIMA N (Text) 33126022496149 YA Fiction Available -
Erlanger Branch J GAIMA N (Text) 33126024998852 JFiction Available -
Erlanger Branch YA GAIMA N (Text) 33126018451280 YA Fiction Display -
Independence Branch J GAIMA N (Text) 33126024998845 JFiction Paperback Available -

  • Baker & Taylor
    Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
  • Baker & Taylor
    After the grisly murder of his entire family, a toddler wanders into a graveyard where the ghosts and other supernatural residents agree to raise him as one of their own.
  • Baker & Taylor
    Raised since he was a baby by ghosts, werewolves, and other residents of the cemetery in which he has always resided, Bod wonders how he will manage to survive amongst the living with only the lessons he has learned from the dead.
  • HARPERCOLL

    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. This middle grade novel is an excellent choice for tween readers in grades 5 to 6, especially during homeschooling. It's a fun way to keep your child entertained and engaged while not in the classroom.

    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.

  • HARPERCOLL

    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.


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