A man named Jack enters a home in the night. He has a sharp knife and he uses it to kill the mother, the father, and the older sister who live there.Now Jack is ready to finish the job and kill the baby that’s sleeping in the crib. But Jack soon discovers the baby is not in his crib. So, to be really thorough in his work, Jack leaves the house and follows the baby's smell up the hill to the graveyard.How did the baby end up in the graveyard? Flashback: a little while earlier, the baby was woken up by a bunch of noise,so he jumps out of his crib, goes down the stairs, and leaves his house, and toddles up the hill to the graveyard. In the graveyard, the baby meets Mr.& Mrs. Owens, kind ghosts who agree to adopt him & protect him from Jack. Silas, agrees to be the baby's guardian, and he makes Jack leave the graveyard. The ghosts of the graveyard agree that the eighteen-month-old baby will live in the graveyard with Mr. and Mrs. Owens. He will have Freedom of the Graveyard, which means he can walk through walls and graves, and that he is invisible to most humans when he’s in the graveyard. Mrs. Owens names the baby Nobody Owens (“Bod” for short).Unlike the ghosts in the graveyard, Silas isn’t dead and he isn’t alive, and he can leave the graveyard. This means he can get food for the baby and anything else the kid might need. Bod isn’t allowed to leave the graveyard because his guardians fear for his safety, and so, the ghosts of the graveyard become his tutors and educators as well as his family. The story follows Bod as he grows into a young man and eventually has to decide how to deal with his past and the man who started it all. I think that upper elementary school children will like this. However, I was not a fan.
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