The Graveyard BookOld Books The Graveyard Book is a book about a little boy named Nobody Owens. Bod, as his friends call him is an orphan who has the most interesting surrogate family. Having lost his entire family to a brutal murder, Bod wanders into a graveyard and here is where he finds the most amazing myth to be a reality that ghosts are real. The beauty of the story told in The Graveyard Book is that none of the characters react in a way one would expect them to.