Audience Pick!

Title: The Graveyard Book
Author: Neil Gaiman
Category: Fiction, Middle Grade
Rating: 3.5/5
Summary: An 18-month-old baby survives a brutal attack on his family by escaping to a nearby graveyard. There, he finds a new family and a new name, and the graveyard becomes his home.

Review: I don’t usually like dark books like this, but this one is so well done I couldn’t help but enjoy it.

How could an opening possibly hook you more than this?

There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife. The knife had a handle of polished black bone, and a blade finer and sharper than any razor. If it sliced you, you might not even know you had been cut, not immediately.

The knife had done almost everything it was brought to that house to do, and both the blade and the handle were wet.

Yowza. The book lightens up after that opening scene, but it’s all relative—the boy is living in a graveyard.

If you like dark stories, you’ll love this book.

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