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The winner of this year’s Newbery Award is The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, author of Coraline. Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn’t live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy- an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack- who has already killed bod’s family….
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Many students have been busy reading the Virginia Readers’ Choice books and taking the Accelerated Readers tests to qualify to vote for their favorite book in March. Keep reading! Let us know what your favorite book is so far.