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The Graveyard Book
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Susan
May 02, 2024 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
I really ended up liking this book. At first it dragged and I thought this was not a writing style I enjoyed and the story telling was just fair. I think about 75 pages in I got to know the characters and there were a lot of characters it seemed. Once I got them all straight I found I really enjoyed the story and each of the ghostly characters. I thought the Jack's of All Trades were great villains.

I really liked the ghouls even though they weren't in it for very long. I wanted to DNF this book
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Kellyreaderofbooks
Oct 16, 2009 rated it it was amazing
One night, three members of a family are murdered in their home. Only the youngest--a one year old old little boy--escapes. He toddles down to the local graveyard, and the ghosts and vampire who live there protect him from the murderer, a horrible man named Jack. The residents of the graveyard decide to take in and raise the young boy, who they name Nobody Owens.

Growing up in a graveyard makes for a unique childhood. Nobody (or Bod, as he likes to be called) learns such things as how to open a
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