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The Graveyard Book
Published 2008 by HarperCollins · 312 pages
Hugo · 2009
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4 award entries · 3 books · 3 wins · 2002–2014
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Synopsis
After his family is murdered, a toddler wanders into a graveyard and is adopted by its ghostly inhabitants. Named Nobody Owens, he grows up among the dead, learning supernatural skills and the history of the living world he’s been hidden from — but the man who killed his family is still looking for him.
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