Somewhere along the line in the thirty years that followed I gradually lost the desire or will to escape the rules of nature. They had not only villains and heroes, children who became men, and powers discovered, but they made me feel like I could be part of battles between order and chaos, mages and warriors, gods and men, monsters and me. They were books of a different world with with rules of magic I could believe were real.

As a kid (roughly age 10 to 13) I used to love reading books like the Sword of Shanara, Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Circle of Light, Elric of Melnibone, Chronicles of Amber, Grey Mouser and Fafhard, The Dragon and the George, The Compleat Enchanter, etc. I just put my finger on why I find Neil Gaiman's Graveyard Book and Neverwhere so enchanting. Magical, terrifying, and filled with breathtaking adventures, The Graveyard Book is the winner of the Newbery Medal, the Carnegie Medal, the Hugo Award for best novel, the Locus Award for Young Adult novel, the American Bookseller Association's 'Best Indie Young Adult Buzz Book', a Horn Book Honor, and Audio Book of the Year. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their ghostly teachings - such as the ability to Fade so mere mortals cannot see him.Ĭan a boy raised by ghosts face the wonders and terrors of the worlds of both the living and the dead? Nobody Owens is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place - he's the only living resident of a graveyard. The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman, has sold more than one million copies and is the only novel ever to win both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal. The original audiobook edition of the acclaimed novel, read by the author!

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