** spoiler alert ** 
 Nice short read that's nevertheless memorable. 
 A baby is taken in to live in a graveyard when he wanders away from his family home while his family is being murdered. The ghosts of the people buried there help raise the boy, giving him abilities and knowledge he wouldn't otherwise have. He uses the things he learns when faced with his family's killer, making it safe for him to leave the graveyard behind when he grows up. 
 In some ways I find it difficult to believe this would be a children's book, and yet it has the classic lines of a fairytale. And if you've ever read the old fairytales, they are pretty violent, too.