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The Graveyard Book

by Neil Gaiman

Ages 10–13 Reading age 11 Novel Set in somewhere magical spookythoughtful

A toddler escapes the killing of his family and is raised by the dead in a hillside graveyard, safe there only as long as he stays inside the gates.

A story about children and magical creatures, spooky and thoughtful in tone. We would put it with children of 10–13, and at a reading age of about 11 for reading alone.

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