After his family is murdered, a toddler wanders into a nearby graveyard and is adopted and raised by its ghostly residents, who name him Nobody Owens. Guarded by the mysterious Silas, Bod grows up learning the graveyard's ancient tricks while the man who killed his family still hunts for him beyond the gates. As he edges toward adulthood, Bod must decide how long he can stay safely among the dead before facing the living world, and the man Jack, on his own.
Books mentioned in The Graveyard Book (3)
The Cat in the Hat by Seuss: “Silas appeared at the front of the Owenses' cosy tomb carrying three large books – two of them brightly coloured alphabet books ('A is for Apple, B is for Ball') and a copy of The Cat in the Hat.”
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: “So Thackeray Porringer had died in a fury, clutching his copy of Robinson Crusoe, which was, apart from a silver sixpence with the edges clipped and the clothes he had formerly been standing up in, all that he owned.”
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson: “'More like Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde,' said somebody, who had been reading, unnoticed, in a window seat, and he got up and walked out of the room.”