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Happy Thursday TMS Readers! “There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.” Some first lines just stick in my memory. This one comes from The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. This book was published in both the UK and the US in 2008 and won both the Carnegie Medal (UK) and the Newbery Medal (US) in addition to a Hugo Award.
It tells the story of a boy who came to be known as Nobody Owens because one, his adoptive parents state that he's nobody but himself, and two, because he was only a year and a half when he escaped from his crib and toddled out of his house and into the graveyard as his family were being murdered by a man named Jack. Remember that hand in the dark?
The man named Jack has unfinished business, but the denizens of the graveyard protect Bod as best they can. While suspenseful and scary, there's plenty of humor in this tale.
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