The Graveyard Book

$15.99

Hardcover
Author: Neil Gaiman
Illustrator: Dave McKean
Foreword by: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Harpercollins
Publish Date: October 2008
Language: English
Reading Level: 5.1
EAN: 9780060530921

Overview

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.

Details

Pages: 368
Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.8 x 1.3 in
Lexile Score: 820
Interest Level: Middle Grade Plus (MG+)
Point Value: 10
ISBN: 0060530928

Awards

2012 Nene Award - Nominee (Children's Fiction)
2012 Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award - Nominee (Grades 6-8)
2011 Sequoyah Book Awards - Nominee (Intermediate)
2010 Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award - Nominee (Children's)
2009 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards - Honor Book (Fiction & Poetry)
2009 Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens - Recommended (Ten to Fourteen)
2009 Delaware Diamonds Award - Nominee (High School)
2009 Hugo Award - Winner (Novel)
2009 Indies Choice Book Awards - Winner (Young Adult Fiction)
2009 Isinglass Teen Read Award - Nominee (Grades 6-8)
2009 Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award - Winner (Children's Literature)
2009 Newbery Medal - Winner (Children's)
2008 Cybils - Winner (Fantasy/Sci-Fi/ELM/Midgr)
2008 L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist (Young Adult Literature)