If such a thing as a “Young Adult Novel” masterpiece exists, then this is for everyone. This book is also considered a “Modern Classic.”

This book had the tone of the 2nd half of Stephen King’s book Fairy Tales because it is such a different world from Bod, Nobody Owens’s point of view was developed from inside the graveyard. His youth was unique of course, but the feeling of his dead parents and friends were natural to him and offered some important life lessons.

We learn about the importance of community and feel our life experience with children who grow up and go into the world to fail and get up and try again.

Bod learns from Silas, the ghost Silas that being alive means “infinite potential.” “You can do anything, make anything, dream anything,” Silas tells him. “If you can change the world, the world will change.

Silas obviously believes in free will as well as fate.This may seem to be a conflicting conclusion but free will relates to our exercise of will through choices in the present, whereas fate is the sum total of the effect of past choices that influenced our present life.

Exercise of free will in the past becomes our fate in the present.

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