By Neil Gaiman
Illustrations by Dave McKean
This is a story about the childhood of a boy named Nobody Owens. Nobody, Bod for short, lives in a very unique neighborhood, a graveyard! His dad, mom, and sister were killed when he was just a small baby. He managed to get away from this evil man by just learning how to climb out of his crib. He crawls into a graveyard, by accident, and the ghosts of the people who were buried, take him in and raise him until adulthood. Since the graveyard will be his new home, he gets honored the same skills of the ghosts. On one condition, he does not leave the graveyard because the man who killed his family are still out looking for him, everywhere!
This story is very well written and will draw readers to the book. Bod gets himself in trouble by wanting to go out in the real world, exploring and learning. He meets tons of ghosts and hears history lessons from them. There is a bully lesson that can be expanded and life lessons on the value of having good friends. Neil Gaiman even adds a little England twist in his writings for the watchful reader!
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