Her panic draws figures from all over the graveyard. A startling flickering ghost of the baby’s dead mother appears pleading with them to keep her child safe. When someone rattles the gate they think someone has come for the child. They wonder what to do with a live child in their dead world. The toddler tumbles from his crib and toddles out the open door and up the hill, escaping Jack.Īt the top of the hill, in the graveyard, Mr. In the dark and scary beginning the man Jack kills a family with a sharp, long knife. These chapter summaries do not replace reading the book they will help students prepare for tests and reports.Ĭhapter 1 – How Nobody Came to the Graveyard The dead and undead teach Bod the lessons of the living while he grows up. Nobody (Bod) Owens is an orphan adopted by ghosts and raised in the graveyard. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman is a clever young adult novel that tells the story of Bod.
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