Chapter Book 5 / The Graveyard Book

Title	The Graveyard Book
Author	Neil Gaiman
Illustrator	Dave McKean
Publication Year	2008
Awards	Newbery Medal
Publisher	Harper Collins
ISBN	978-0-06-053093-8
Readability Score (GLE = Grade Level Equivalent)	Lexile	820L
	DRA	40
	GLE	5.4
	Guided Reading	K
Genre /      Sub-Genre	Chapter Book /  Adventure, Mystery and Suspense, Fantasy
Theme	A toddler being raised in a graveyard by ghosts.
Primary Character	Nobody Owens
Secondary Characters	Scarlett, Mr. and Mrs. Owens, Jack, Silas
Classroom Use	I honestly did not care for this book. If I had to use it in a classroom, it would be good to use if speaking about Parents, Guardians, or Foster Parents and Adaption. It would also be an interesting ghost story.
Book Summary	Jack has murdered all the members of a family except for the toddler upstairs. What Jack did not know is that the toddler has climbed out of his crib and went up a hill to a graveyard where he is found by some ghosts. The ghosts decide to keep him and Mr. and Mrs. Owens become his foster parents. His caretaker is Silas and he is responsible for providing for the baby known as Nobody. Jack, known as the man Jack, thinks that the toddler has crawled down a hill and he loses his trail. Nobody grows up in the grave yard. He becomes friends with a girl named Scarlett and her mother tells her that Nobody is her imaginary friend. Scarlett and her family end up moving to Scotland and as years passed Scarlett and her mother come back to town because her parents divorced. In the meantime, Jack is still looking for the toddler to kill him. Scarlett made friends with a man named Jay. Jay lives in the house that Nobody lived in when his family got murdered. When Nobody visits the house to learn more about his family, Jay attacks him. Jay is Jack, the guy who was looking for the toddler. Nobody and Scarlett escape and Jack takes Scarlett captive but is tricked and the Sleer engulfs him. Scarlett is shocked about what happened and does not think that Nobody should have killed Jay so Silas suggest removing her memory. Nobody does not want to do that but it happens anyway. At the end of the book, Nobody grows up and he starts to lose his ability to see ghosts and he leaves the graveyard to start his new life.