The graveyard book
Record details
- ISBN: 9780060530945
- ISBN: 0060530936 (lib bdg.)
- ISBN: 9780060530938 (lib bdg.)
- ISBN: 0060530928 (trade bdg.)
- ISBN: 9780060530921 (trade bdg.)
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Physical Description:
312 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : HarperCollins Pub., c2008.
Content descriptions
Awards Note: | Newbery Medal book, 2009. |
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Subject: | Orphans Fiction Cemeteries Fiction Dead Fiction |
Available copies
- 5 of 5 copies available at Kenton County.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 5 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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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 | - |
- School Library Journal Reviews : SLJ Reviews 2008 October
Gr 5â8â 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 Caius Pompeius; an opinionated young witch; a melodramatic hack poet; and Bod's beloved mentor and guardian, Silas, who is neither living nor dead and has secrets of his own. As he grows up, Bod has a series of adventures, both in and out of the graveyard, and the threat of the man Jack who continues to hunt for him is ever present. Bod's love for his graveyard family and vice versa provide the emotional center, amid suspense, spot-on humor, and delightful scene-setting. The child Bod's behavior is occasionally too precocious to be believed, and a series of puns on the name Jack render the villain a bit less frightening than he should be, though only momentarily. Aside from these small flaws, however, Gaiman has created a rich, surprising, and sometimes disturbing tale of dreams, ghouls, murderers, trickery, and family.âMegan Honig, New York Public Library
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