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The Graveyard Book
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Neil Gaiman
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Series (with order)
Canonical Title
The Graveyard Book
Original publication date
2008-09-30
People/Characters
Nobody Owens
Silas
Mr. Owens
Mistress Owens
Scarlett Perkins
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The Sleer
Miss Lupescu
Liza Hempstock
Mother Slaughter
Josiah Worthington
Mr. Dandy
Mo Quilling
The Man Jack
Jacks of All Trades
Jack Ketch
Jack Frost
Jack Nimble
Jack Dandy
Jack Tarr
Important places
Ghulheim
Important events
Awards and honors
Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year (2008.22|Fiction (9), 2008)
Audies Award - CHILDREN’S TITLES FOR AGES UP TO 8 (2009)
Audies Award - Audiobook of the Year (2009)
A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book (2008)
Newbery Medal (2009)
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Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist (Young Adult Literature, 2008)
Cybils Award (Fantasy and Science Fiction - Elementary/Middle Grade, 2008)
SF Site Editor's Choice (2008)
SF Site Reader's Choice (2008)
Hugo (Novel, 2009)
ALA Best Books for Young Adults (2009)
Locus (Young Adult Novel, 2009)
Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee (Children's Literature, 2009)
British Fantasy Award Nominee (August Derleth Fantasy Award, 2009)
Locus Recommended Reading (Young Adult, 2008)
World Fantasy Award Nominee (Novel, 2009)
Epigraph
Rattle his bones
Over the stones
It's only a pauper
Who nobody owns
-- Traditional Nursery Rhyme
Dedication
First words
There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.
Quotations
Last words
But between now and then, there was Life; and Bod walked into it with his eyes and his heart wide open.
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Black, Holly
Hill, Joe
Niffenegger, Audrey
Beagle, Peter S.
Hamilton, Laurell K.
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Jones, Diana Wynne
Nix, Garth
Herbert, James
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