The Graveyard Book
A 2008 novel by Neil Gaiman in which a boy named Nobody Owens is raised by ghosts in a graveyard after his family is murdered.
The book draws on Rudyard Kipling's *The Jungle Book*, substituting supernatural guardians for animal ones.
It won both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal—a rare distinction for children's literature.
- dark fantasyGrim supernatural storytelling genre
- young adult fictionGenre targeting teenage readers
- ghostsSpirits of the deceased
- tombstonesMemorial stones over graves
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
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The Graveyard BookPollyanna
Excessively positive person
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The Graveyard BookLittle Women
Novel about four sisters
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The Graveyard BookLittle Women
Novel about four sisters
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