I started reading this book 3 weeks ago, and finished it on 11th June 2018. It is about a baby boy, whose family is killed, and he crawls to the graveyard near his house, and is raised by Ghosts for the next 15 years of his life. This book is a thriller, as the criminal of the kid's family's death is known.
The kid is called 'Nobody' as his ghost parents say, "The boy is himself. Not anyone else, so we shall name him Nobody." He becomes friends with other dead people in the graveyard, and has many adventures in the graveyard.
The only thing he is not allowed to do is exit the graveyard, as his family's murderer, the man Jack, is still alive, and wants to murder him. Luckily, his guardian, Silas says that he has the freedom of the graveyard. He once also starts school, but quits it as he was about to become the most popular person in school, which he doesn't want. Nobody learns ghost tricks and studies in the graveyard by his tutor, Miss Lupescu, and has lots of boys of a family (who all died before they were 10 years old) to play with. He learns secrets of the graveyard, and how life was in the olden days. He listens to the stories Sir Nehemiah Trot, a poet who has travelled around the world, teaches him, and learns facts, (like how Silas had met the Queen of England, who glared at everyone and spoke no English,) from his tutor and guardian.
What I enjoyed the most in this book is when Nobody teaches the man Jack a lesson. How the boy got the man Jack tricked into becoming the master of the Sleer. What I learnt from this book is new vocabulary, and how was life in different centuries, and what people thought in different centuries, and how they lived. I also learnt about different types of jobs people do.
This book has also won the 2010 Cilip Carneige Medal. It is a book full of mysteries and suspense, and is an outstanding book for kids from 12 years to adults to read. I recommend that the readers of this blog can come to me to borrow this book, or buy it online.
