The Graveyard Book

 Gaiman, N. (2008). The Graveyard Book. New York, NY: HarperCollins Pub. 

At the beginning of the story, there is a man with a knife and says that he needed to finish the job. Well actually, he killed his whole family and wanted to kill the baby. Thankfully, the baby escaped and ended up at a graveyard close to the house. There was a ghost couple awaiting at the graveyard and baby’s family, which where ghosts now that they were killed, and asked them to adopt “Bod” as their son. They agreed and Bod grew up in the graveyard. Silas was his guardian and told him to always stay on the graveyard. As he grew up he met a girl, Scarlett, who quickly after meeting had to move to Scotland. Bod decided to get money to buy a grave stone for a witch that was recently buried. In the process, he leaves the graveyard and goes onto a pawn shop. He ends up been locked up, because Jack, the killer, was in touch with the pawn shop workers. He was able to get out and Scarlett returned to live because her parents separated. He eventually meets Jack and kills him. At the end, he leaves the graveyard to move on with his life. 

Quite interesting theme and suspenseful! I believe that the book is mildly creepy but I really enjoy reading it.

Teaching guide: http://www.eisd.net/cms/lib04/TX01001208/Centricity/Domain/65/the_graveyard_book_teacher_guide.pdf

Book Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_UUVwTaemk