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The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman

Start date: October 1, 2010

Finish date: October 31, 2010

Why we're reading this: Winner of October 2010 Book Read
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May 16, 2012 Beth (the one who is) rated it really liked it

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I really enjoyed this journey. The writing style of Neil is amazing. The flow is so easy and readable. It's a children's book but he managed to make it so that adults would enjoy it.
It's about a little boy who's family gets killed and he wonders into a graveyard. The ghosts find him (Mr and Mrs Owens) and decide to help
look after him. He isn't allowed to go outside the gravesite because
the man who had murdered his family.. was still out there.
Weird, concept for a kid's novel, but somehow it ...more

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May 30, 2012 s e n t i m e n t a l i t i e s olittlebear rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Meh. It was fine; easy reading but not exciting.

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Nov 16, 2012 Jennifer rated it really liked it

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Synopsis:

The Graveyard Book is the story about Nobody Owens, or Bod as his friends in the graveyard call him. His parents are murdered by a man named Jack, who is not able to kill the baby because it has crawled out to the graveyard.

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