The Graveyard Book (Broché)

NOBODY OWENS, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Apart from the fact that he lives in a graveyard and is being raised and educated by ghosts, and his guardian belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard : the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer ; a gravestone entrance to a desert that leads to the city of ghouls ; friendship with a witch ; and so much more.
But it is in the land of the living that the real dangers lurk, for it is there that the man Jack lives and he has already killed Bod's family.