The Graveyard Book

It takes a graveyard to raise a child.

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, a gateway to an abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Fleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will be in danger from the man Jack — who has already killed Bod's family...