Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award | Winner | Children's Literature | 2009.Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books For Children and Teens | Recommended | Audio | 2009.Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens | Recommended | Ten to Fourteen | 2009.Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards | Honor Book | Fiction & Poetry | 2009.Locus Award | Winner| Young Adult Fiction | 2009.Indies Choice Book Awards | Winner | Young Adult Fiction | 2009.Times Book Prize | Finalist | Young Adult Literature | 2008 Carnegie Medal | Winner | Children’s | 2009.Newbery Medal | Winner | Children's | 2009.Horn-Book Magazine Starred review | 2008.Cybils | Winner | Fantasy/Middle Grade | 2008.The Graveyard Book, a modern classic, is the only work ever to win both the Newbery (US) and Carnegie (UK) medals. A book your elementary school child, middle school child and high school child will all enjoy. Originally written for ages 10 to 13 years, this book, however, has won awards for 4th grade readers through early high school readers interest level simply because of a really great storyline and has won many, many awards over a span of FIVE years! That’s impressive. This middle grade novel is an excellent choice for tween to teen readers in grades 5, 6, 7 & 8. The softcover 10 Year Anniversary edition of The Graveyard Book includes a foreword by Margaret Atwood as well as sketches from the illustrator, handwritten drafts, and Neil Gaiman’s Newbery acceptance speech. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger! There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer.

He would be completely normal if he didn’t live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy.

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