Name: The Graveyard Book
ISBN: 9780060530921

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When his family is murdered, a toddler wanders into the graveyard on the hill, where the ghosts take him in and name him Nobody Owens. Raised by the dead, and watched over by the mysterious Silas, Bod grows up learning the ways of ghosts - but the man who killed his family is still looking for him.

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