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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Book of the Week (February 16, 2009)


In the IMC collection on the 3rd floor of the Library

Call number :PZ7 G1273 GR 2008


The Graveyard Book

By Neil Gaiman

Winner of the Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature in 2008 and currently #1 on the NY Times best selling books for young adults.

Publisher's Description: Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family. . . .

About the Author: Neil Gaiman is the author of the New York Times bestselling children's book Coraline and of the picture books The Wolves in the Walls and The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, illustrated by Dave McKean. He wrote the script for the film MirrorMask and is also the author of critically acclaimed and award-winning novels and short stories for adults, as well as the Sandman series of graphic novels. Among his many awards are the Newbery Award, World Fantasy Award, the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, and the Bram Stoker Award.

New York Times Book Review of The Graveyard Book

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