The Graveyard Book

Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. well, he would be perfectly normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the world of 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 more. But it is in the land of the living that the man Jack lives and he has already killed Bod's family. (From inside front dustjacket).