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Like all of Neil Gaiman's books, this book was enchanting. After being orphaned in a triple murder, Bod Owens is adopted by the dead of a graveyard, where he then grows up. The Graveyard Book follows him as he grows up in this most unusual way, through his adventures across the different sections of the graveyard - running from ghouls, befriending a witch, and growing up while all his childhood ghost friends stay the same age - and out into the world, where he knows he isn't supposed to go, beca
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This is a magical book, in all the best ways, and made even more so by Gaiman's reading of it for the audio version. He gives a delightful voice to all the characters, as we follow Bod throughout his childhood. It had the sort of charming magic of the Harry Potter series--there's definitely danger, and scariness, and darkness, but there's a beauty to the story as well. Bod is a good kid, doing the best he can with the world he's been given. His ghostly family are fun (and so creative). The overa
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